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Musical hoax

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Amusical hoax (also musical forgery and musical mystification) is a piece of music composed by an individual who intentionally misattributes it to someone else.^[1]

Ascribed to historical figures[edit]

Henri Casadesus
- Viola Concerto in B minor by "George Frideric Handel"
- Viola Concerto in C minor by "Johann Christian Bach"
- Viola Concerto in D major by "Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach"
- Violin Concerto in D major by "Luigi Boccherini"^[2]
Marius Casadesus
- Adélaïde Concerto by "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"
Samuel Dushkin
- Grave for violin and orchestra by "Johann Georg Benda"^[3]
- Sicilienne for strings and clavier by "Maria Theresia von Paradis"
François-Joseph Fétis
- Lute Concerto by "Valentin Strobel"
Remo Giazotto
- Adagio in G minor by "Tomaso Albinoni"
Mikhail Goldstein
- Albumblatt (Листок из Альбома) by "Alexander Glazunov"
- Impromptu (Экспромт) by "Mily Balakirev"
- Viola Concerto in C major by "Ivan Khandoshkin"
Arthur Hutchings
- "New works" by "Paul Hindemith", using the rhythms and dynamics of a Beethoven piano sonata with nonsensically wrong notes.^[4]
Fritz Kreisler^[5]
- Allegretto by "Luigi Boccherini"
- Andantino by "Giovanni Battista Martini"
- Aubade Provençale by "Louis Couperin"
- Chanson Louis XIII and Pavane by "Louis Couperin"
- La Chasse (Caprice) by "Jean Baptiste Cartier"
- Grave by "Wilhelm Friedemann Bach"
- Menuett by "Nicola Porpora"
- Praeludium and Allegro by "Gaetano Pugnani"
- La Précieuse by "Louis Couperin"
- Preghiera by "Giovanni Battista Martini"
- Scherzo by "Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf"
- Sicilienne and Rigaudon by "François Francoeur"
- Study on a Choral by "Johann Stamitz"
- Tempo di Minuetto by "Gaetano Pugnani"
- Variations on a Theme by Corelli by "Giuseppe Tartini"
- Violin Concerto in C major by "Antonio Vivaldi"
Winfried Michel
- Lost keyboard sonatas by "Joseph Haydn"
Édouard Nanny^[6]
- Double Bass Concerto in A major by "Domenico Dragonetti"
Siegfried Ochs
- Dank sei Dir, Herr by "George Frideric Handel"
Alessandro Parisotti
- "Se tu m'ami" by "Giovanni Battista Pergolesi"
Manuel Ponce^{[citation needed]}
- Suite in A minor by "Sylvius Leopold Weiss"
- Preamble & Gavotte by "Alessandro Scarlatti"
David Popper
- Cello Concerto No. 5 in C-Major, Hob. VIIb:5 by "Joseph Haydn"
Vladimir Vavilov
- Ave MariabyAnonymous; The piece later received an unrelated misattribution to Giulio Caccini.
- Elegy for guitar by "Mikhail Vyssotsky"
- Canzona for lute by "Francesco Canova da Milano"
- Mazurka in C minor for guitar by "Andrei Sychra"
- Nocturne in C minor for guitar by "Vassily Sarenko"
- Ricercar by "Niccolo Nigrino"

Ascribed to non-existent or purported historical individuals[edit]

Hans Keller and Susan Bradshaw
- Mobile for Tape and Percussion (1961) by "Piotr Zak"^[7]
Mikhail Goldstein
- Symphony No. 21 by "Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky"
Winfried Michel
- Chamber music by "Giovanni Paolo Simonetti"^{[citation needed]}
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk^[8]
- Works for baroque lute by "Johann Joachim Sautscheck", "Gotthold Ephraim Sautscheck", "Konradin Aemilius Sautscheck", et al.^[9]
- Works for renaissance lute by "Ioannes Leopolita" and "Jacobus Olevsiensis"
Rohan Kriwaczek
- Works for solo violin, ascribed to various fictional English "funeral violinists".^[10]

References[edit]

^ Dan Hill. "Musical Crimes: Forgery, Deceit, and Socio-Hermeneutics". Archived from the original on September 18, 2008. Retrieved February 28, 2013.

^ Christian Speck and Stanley Sadie,Boccherini,(Ridolfo)Luigi, Grove Music https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.03337

^ Lebermann W. Apokryph, "Plagiat, Korruptel oder Falsifikat?" Musikforschung 20 (1967): 413–25.

^ Arthur Hutchings, "Personal View: 2. Du Côté de chez Zak", Musical Times 102, no. 1424 (October 1961): 623–24. Citation on p. 623.

^ Library of Congress Fritz Kreisler Collection

^ Rodney Slatford, "Review: Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846): The Career of a Double Bass Virtuoso" Music & Letters 80, no. 2 (May 1999): 297–99

^ Andrew Porter, "Zak's 'Mobile'", The Musical Times 123, no. 1671 (May 1982): 319.

^ "Кажется, это не Бах: краткая история музыкальных мистификаций". Нож.

^ "INTERVISTA".

^ "British Author Espies a Funerary Violin Vacuum and So Fills It". The New York Times. 4 October 2006.

External links[edit]

Service, Tom (12 August 2015). "Don't believe your ears: the best classical music hoaxes" – via The Guardian.

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