Musical hoax

{{Short description|Intentionally misattributed music}}{{Refimprove|date=February 2008}}

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.{{cite web |last=Dan Hill |url=http://www.serenestudios.co.uk/articles/musical_crimes |title=Musical Crimes: Forgery, Deceit, and Socio-Hermeneutics |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918235901/http://www.serenestudios.co.uk/articles/musical_crimes |archivedate=September 18, 2008 |accessdate=February 28, 2013}}

Ascribed to historical figures

Ascribed to non-existent or purported historical individuals

  • Hans Keller and Susan Bradshaw
  • Mobile for Tape and Percussion (1961) by "Piotr Zak"Andrew Porter, "Zak's 'Mobile'", The Musical Times 123, no. 1671 (May 1982): 319.
  • Mikhail Goldstein
  • Symphony No. 21 by "Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky"
  • Winfried Michel
  • Chamber music by "Giovanni Paolo Simonetti"{{Citation needed|date=February 2013}}
  • Roman Turovsky-Savchuk{{cite web|url=https://knife.media/mystification/|title=Кажется, это не Бах: краткая история музыкальных мистификаций|website=Нож|date=26 August 2018 }}
  • Works for baroque lute by "Johann Joachim Sautscheck", "Gotthold Ephraim Sautscheck", "Konradin Aemilius Sautscheck", et al.{{cite web|url=http://polyhymnion.org/swv/intervista.html|title=INTERVISTA|publisher=}}
  • Works for renaissance lute by "Ioannes Leopolita" and "Jacobus Olevsiensis"
  • Rohan Kriwaczek
  • Works for solo violin, ascribed to various fictional English "funeral violinists".{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/04/books/04viol.html|title=British Author Espies a Funerary Violin Vacuum and So Fills It|date=4 October 2006|work=The New York Times}}

References

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