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.^[1]

Musical hoaxes 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 Emmanuel Bach""

Marius Casadesus

• Adélaïde Concerto by "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"

Gaspar Cassadó

• Аllegretto Grazioso by "Franz Schubert"
• Toccata by "Girolamo Frescobaldi""

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"
• Symphony No. 21 by "Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky"
• 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.^[2]

Fritz Kreisler ^[3]

• 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""

Edouard Nanny^[4]

• Double Bass Concerto in A major by "Domenico Dragonetti""

Alessandro Parisotti

• "Se tu m'ami" by "Giovanni Battista Pergolesi""

Manuel Ponce^{[citation needed]}

• 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"
• Kanzona for lute by "Francesco Canova da Milano"
• Mazurka in C minor for guitar by "Andrey Sykhra"
• Nocturne in C minor for guitar by "Vassily Sarenko"
• Ricercar by "Niccolo Nigrino""

Ascribed to non-existent or purported historical individuals

Roger Eno

• The Music of Neglected English Composers by Willington Crook, Ellishaw Blakehope, Pilham Aisby, Clare Brand, Jack Hill, Morley Butterknowle, Gayle Hawkes, Burwell Ruckland"^{[citation needed]}

Paulo Galvao

• Works for archlute and baroque guitar by "AdC" (Antonio da Costa)"

Hans Keller and Susan Bradshaw

• Mobile for Tape and Percussion (1961) by Piotr Zak"

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

1. ^ Musical Crimes: Forgery, Deceit, and Socio-Hermeneutics
2. ^ Arthur Hutchings, "Personal View: 2. Du Côté de chez Zak", Musical Times 102, no. 1424 (October 1961): 623–24. Citation on p. 623.
3. ^ Library of Congress Fritz Kreisler Collection
4. ^ Slatford, Rodney (May 1999) "Review: Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846): The Career of a Double Bass Virtuoso" Music & Letters (Oxford University Press) 80 (2): 297–299