Talk:Musical hoax

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[edit] List needed

There are tons of musical hoaxes not listed here. Kreisler wrote dozens of them (Caprice Viennois, Tambourin Chinois), etc. Siegfried Ochs snuck "Dank sei Dir, Herr" into the Handel canon, and Anton Schindler had us all believe that "Ta, ta, ta (etc.), lieber Maelzel" was a Beethoven canon.

Anyone interested in helping to construct a fuller list with references, catalog numbers, etc.? Some composers' catalogs (Mozart's, for instance) have big "Spurious" sections.

RogerLustig (talk) 22:15, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Post first, research later--that's me. I see that there is a list of these, more expansive than the one in the article. It points mainly to composers and/or perpetrators. Perhaps this article should be augmented or replaced by a Musical Misattributions category page.

RogerLustig (talk) 22:20, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

If so, then augmentation is necessary. I see no mention anywhere of, say, "L S Bumblebee," the "Boccherini Cello Concerto in B flat", "Haydn's Op. 3", the "Concert du Bébé" or most of the items in the 115 pages of the Koechel 6th edition catalogue of Mozart that are devoted to spurious works.\

Martin Luther may have said it best: "Poor Josquin! Now that he's dead, he's composing more than ever!"

RogerLustig (talk) 01:43, 8 June 2008 (UTC)