Musical hoax
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.[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"
- Marius Casadesus
- Samuel Dushkin
- Grave for violin and orchestra by "Johann Georg Benda"[2]
- 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", in fact the rhythms and dynamics of a Beethoven piano sonata with nonsensically wrong notes.[3]
- Fritz Kreisler[4]
- 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[5]
- 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
- Mikhail Goldstein
- 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.[7]
- Works for renaissance lute by Ioannes Leopolita and Jacobus Olevsiensis"
- Rohan Kriwaczek
- Works for solo violin, ascribed to various fictional English "funeral violinists".[8]
External links
- Service, Tom (12 August 2015). "Don't believe your ears: the best classical music hoaxes" – via The Guardian.
References
- ↑ Dan Hill. "Musical Crimes: Forgery, Deceit, and Socio-Hermeneutics". Archived from the original on September 18, 2008. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
- ↑ Lebermann W. Apokryph, "Plagiat, Korruptel oder Falsifikat?" Musikforschung 20 (1967): 413–25.
- ↑ Arthur Hutchings, "Personal View: 2. Du Côté de chez Zak", Musical Times 102, no. 1424 (October 1961): 623–24. Citation on p. 623.
- ↑ Library of Congress Fritz Kreisler Collection
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Andrew Porter, "Zak's 'Mobile'", The Musical Times 123, no. 1671 (May 1982): 319.
- ↑ "INTERVISTA".
- ↑ "British Author Espies a Funerary Violin Vacuum and So Fills It". The New York Times. 4 October 2006.
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