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.
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" "Pietà, Signore!" (a.k.a. "Se i miei sospiri") by "Alessandro Stradella" 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 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" Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen by "Joseph Lanner" Winfried Michel Six "lost" keyboard sonatas by "Joseph Haydn," "Hob. XVI:2a–e and 2g" 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 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 Vysotsky" Canzona and Dance and several Ricercars for lute by "Francesco Canova da Milano" Pavane and Gallarde for lute by "Vincenzo Galilei" Mazurka in C minor for guitar by "Andrei Sychra" Nocturne in C minor for guitar by "Vassily Sarenko" Ricercar for lute by "Niccolo Nigrino" Chaconne for lute by "Hans Neusidler" Pasturelle for lute by "Jean-Antoine de Baïf" Gavotte for lute by "Denis Gaultier"
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" Chamber music by "Giovanni Paolo Tomesini" 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".
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External links
Hebblethwaite, Phil (5 November 2024). "What are you Haydn? The Hoaxers who fooled the Classical Music World". The Guaridan.