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".