Profectio Moysis in Aegyptum (1784): A “Fake” Neapolitan Oratorio?

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  • Eric Boaro

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https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd19.2.03

Keywords:

oratorio, forgery, Naples, Andrea Favi, Venice

Abstract

One manuscript of an oratorio in I-Mc dating from 1784 is described, on its title page, as a pasticcio by “celebrated Neapolitan maestri”. I suggest that the source is actually a forgery and linked to three non-Neapolitan composers. The inference is that it was associ- ated with Naples purely for marketing reasons.

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2024-01-25

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Boaro, E. (2024). Profectio Moysis in Aegyptum (1784): A “Fake” Neapolitan Oratorio?. De Musica Disserenda, 19(2). https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd19.2.03

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Vol. 19 No. 2 (2023): Authentic, Fake or Mistaken Identity? Creation, Recreation, Deception and Forgery in Music

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