Musical hoax

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A Musical Hoax (оr Musical Mystification) is a piece of classical music composed by one individual but intentionally misattributed to another ^[1].

Musical hoaxes ascribed to historical figures:

Name of Piece	False attribution	Actual composer
Symphony No. 21	Ovsianniko-Kulikovsky	Mikhail Goldstein
Viola concerto	Ivan Khandoshkin	Mikhail Goldstein
Album-blatte	Alexander Glazunov	Mikhail Goldstein
Impromptu (Экспромт)	Mily Balakirev	Mikhail Goldstein
Adélaïde Concerto	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Marius Casadesus
Viola Concerto	George Frideric Handel	Henri Casadesus
Viola Concerto	Johann Christian Bach	Henri Casadesus
Lute Concerto	Valentin Strobel	Francois-Joseph Fetis
"Kanzona" for lute	Francesco Da Milano	Vladimir Vavilov
Ave Maria	Giulio Caccini	Vladimir Vavilov
Elegy for guitar	Mikhail Vyssotsky	Vladimir Vavilov
Nocturne C minor for guitar	Vassily Sarenko	Vladimir Vavilov
Mazurka in C minor for guitar	Andrey Sykhra	Vladimir Vavilov
Lost keyboard sonatas	Franz Joseph Haydn	Winfried Michel
Аllegretto Grazioso	Franz Schubert	Gaspar Cassadó
Toccata	Girolamo Frescobaldi	Gaspar Cassadó
Introduction & Allegro	Gaetano Pugnani	Fritz Kreisler
Chaconne	Tomaso Antonio Vitali	Ferdinand David
Adagio in G minor	Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni	Remo Giazotto
"Se tu m'ami"	Giovanni Battista Pergolesi	Alessandro Parisotti
Suite in E major	Sylvius Leopold Weiss	Manuel Ponce

Ascribed to non-existent or purported historical individuals:

Name of Piece	False attribution	Actual composer
Works for baroque lute	Johann Joachim Sautscheck	Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
Works for renaissance lute	Ioannes Leopolita	Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
Works for archlute and baroque guitar	"AdC"	Paulo Galvao
Chamber music	"Simonetti"	Winfried Michel