Musical hoax

A musical 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

• 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 Maria by Anonymous; 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

• 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

1. Dan Hill. "Musical Crimes: Forgery, Deceit, and Socio-Hermeneutics". Archived from the original on September 18, 2008. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
2. Christian Speck and Stanley Sadie,Boccherini,(Ridolfo)Luigi, Grove Music https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.03337
3. Lebermann W. Apokryph, "Plagiat, Korruptel oder Falsifikat?" Musikforschung 20 (1967): 413–25.
4. Arthur Hutchings, "Personal View: 2. Du Côté de chez Zak", Musical Times 102, no. 1424 (October 1961): 623–24. Citation on p. 623.
5. "Kreisler Reveals 'Classics' as Own; Fooled Music Critics for 30 Years; Composed Works Ascribed to Vivaldi, Couperin and Porpora to Avoid Using His Name Too Often at His Recitals -- Manuscript Hunt Exposed Hoax, He Cables From Vienna". The New York Times. 8 February 1935. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
6. 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
7. Andrew Porter, "Zak's 'Mobile'", The Musical Times 123, no. 1671 (May 1982): 319.
8. "Кажется, это не Бах: краткая история музыкальных мистификаций". Нож. 26 August 2018.
9. "INTERVISTA".
10. "British Author Espies a Funerary Violin Vacuum and So Fills It". The New York Times. 4 October 2006.

External links

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