# Musical hoax

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"
* Marius Casadesus
** Adélaïde Concerto by "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"
* Samuel Dushkin
** Grave for violin and orchestra by "Johann Georg Benda"
** 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.
* 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"
* 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 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".