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
- 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"Christian Speck and Stanley Sadie,Boccherini,(Ridolfo)Luigi, Grove Music https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.03337
- Marius Casadesus
- Adélaïde Concerto by "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"
- Samuel Dushkin
- Grave for violin and orchestra by "Johann Georg Benda"Lebermann W. Apokryph, "Plagiat, Korruptel oder Falsifikat?" Musikforschung 20 (1967): 413–25.
- 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.Arthur Hutchings, "Personal View: 2. Du Côté de chez Zak", Musical Times 102, no. 1424 (October 1961): 623–24. Citation on p. 623.
- Fritz Kreisler{{cite news |title=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. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/02/08/archives/kreisler-reveals-classics-as-own-fooled-music-critics-for-30-years.html |access-date=27 October 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=8 February 1935}}
- 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 NannyRodney Slatford, "Review: Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846): The Career of a Double Bass Virtuoso" Music & Letters 80, no. 2 (May 1999): 297–99
- 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|date=April 2011}}
- 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"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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External links
- {{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2015/aug/12/the-best-classical-music-hoaxes|title=Don't believe your ears: the best classical music hoaxes|first=Tom|last=Service|date=12 August 2015|publisher=|newspaper=The Guardian}}