Forgery in Musical Composition
Aesthetics, History, and the Canon
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 May 2025
- ISBN 9780197618301
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 240x167x24 mm
- Weight 513 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 illustrations 605
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Short description:
Forgery in Musical Composition tells the fascinating history of forgery in classical music culture from the 1790s to the 1990s. The book exposes how and why musical counterfeits are made, casting new light on canonical composers such as Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert alongside prominent twentieth-century musicians like Fritz Kreisler and Glenn Gould. Drawing on a wealth of scores, primary sources, and interviews, the study ultimately suggests that confrontations with the reality of compositional forgery can help clarify concerns about authenticity, creativity, and the self which continue to shape musical culture in the present.
MoreLong description:
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, Forgery in Musical Composition 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. Pursuing his topic from case to case, Reece observes that fake historical masterpieces have often seduced listeners not simply by imitating old works, but rather by mirroring modern cultural beliefs about innovation, identity, and meaning in music. Here forged compositions have important truths to tell us about knowing and valuing works of art precisely because they are not what they appear.
This book is suitable for academic music libraries.
Table of Contents:
List of Music Examples
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Van Meegeren Syndrome
PART I. ROMANTIC CULTURES OF FORGERY, 1791-1945
1. Mozartian Swan Songs
2. Kreislerian Fantasies
PART II. MODERN CULTURES OF FORGERY, 1945-2000
3. Schubert's Untrue Symphony
4. Haydn's Missing Link
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
