Musical hoax

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"
• 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 Giovanni Albinoni"
• Mikhail Goldstein
• * Albumblatt by "Alexander Glazunov"
• * Impromptu by "Mily Balakirev"
• * 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.
• 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 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"
• 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 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".