Musical hoax
Intentionally misattributed music
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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
- 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
- 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
- Mikhail Goldstein
- 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]