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Musical hoax

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A musical hoax (also musical forgery and musical mystification) is a piece of music composed by an individual or group who intentionally misattribute it to someone else.

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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"
  • Marius Casadesus
  • Adélaïde Concerto by "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"
  • Samuel Dushkin
  • Grave for violin and orchestra by "Johann Georg Benda"
  • François-Joseph Fétis
  • Lute Concerto by "Valentin Strobel"
  • Remo Giazotto
  • Adagio in G minor by "Tomaso Giovanni 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", in fact the rhythms and dynamics of a Beethoven piano sonata with nonsensically wrong notes.
  • Fritz Kreisler
  • 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
  • Double Bass Concerto in A major by "Domenico Dragonetti"
  • Alessandro Parisotti
  • "Se tu m'ami" by "Giovanni Battista Pergolesi"
  • Manuel Ponce
  • Suite in A minor by "Sylvius Leopold Weiss"
  • Preamble & Gavotte by "Alessandro Scarlatti"
  • 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"
  • Mikhail Goldstein
  • Symphony No. 21 by "Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky"
  • Winfried Michel
  • Chamber music by "Giovanni Paolo Simonetti"
  • Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
  • Works for baroque lute by Johann Joachim Sautscheck, Gotthold Ephraim Sautscheck, Konradin Aemilius Sautscheck, et al.
  • Works for renaissance lute by Ioannes Leopolita and Jacobus Olevsiensis"
  • Rohan Kriwaczek
  • Works for solo violin, ascribed to various fictional English "funeral violinists".

    • References

    Musical hoax Wikipedia
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