Forgery in musical composition : aesthetics, history, and the canon / Frederick Reece.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reece, Frederick, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--History.

Music.

Forgery--History.

Forgery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2025.

Summary:

We all know about art forgeries, but why write fake classical music? In 'Forgery in Musical Composition', Frederick Reece investigates the methods and motives of mysterious musicians who sign famous historical names like Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert to their own original works. Analyzing a series of genuinely fake sonatas, concertos, and symphonies in detail, Reece's study exposes the shadowy roles that forgeries have played in shaping perceptions of authenticity, creativity, and the self within classical music culture from the 1790s to the 1990s. Holding a magnifying glass to a wide array of phony works, this text explains how skillful fakers have succeeded in the past while also proposing active steps that scholars and musicians can take to better identify deceptive compositions in the future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 20, 2025).

ISBN:

9780197618332

0197618332

9780197618325

0197618324

9780197618318

0197618316

OCLC:

1505733663