Forgery in Musical Composition

Aesthetics, History, and the Canon

Frederick Reece (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-761830-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Frederick Reece is Assistant Professor of Music History at the University of Washington. His research centers on the music and culture of the long nineteenth century, with a particular focus on issues of authorship and authenticity. Reece's articles and reviews have appeared in such venues as the Journal of Musicology and the Journal of the American Musicological Society. Educated at the University of Oxford and Harvard University, he is the recipient of the American Musicological Society's Paul A. Pisk Prize and Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	11 illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	167 x 240 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
ISBN-10	0-19-761830-8 / 0197618308
ISBN-13	978-0-19-761830-1 / 9780197618301
Zustand	Neuware