During the 2019 Emmy Awards in September, audience members and viewers expected to pay tribute to the late Andre Previn in the ceremony's In Memorium montage. When Mr. Previn's moment arrived, instead they were presented with a picture of the very much alive Leonard Slatkin! Apologies were made and Slatikin later lauged about the mix-up during a Late Night television interview, but this prompted the Ether Game Brain Trust to look back in the archives at some examples of classical music mistaken identity.
Listen to this week's podcast for five wild stories of musical mix-ups in classical music. You'll find that historians aren't always completely certain of who wrote the most famous pieces of classical music.
Heard on this week's episode:
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685–1750)
TOCCATA AND FUGUE IN D MINOR, BWV 565
Diane Bish, organ
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756–1791)
REQUIEM, K. 626: IV. Offertorium: Domine Hostias
Academy and Chorus of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner, conductor
Kreisler, Fritz (1875–1962)
ALLEGRETTO (in the style of Luigi Boccherini)
Joshua Bell, violin; Paul Coker, piano
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
CELLO CONCERTO IN D MAJORMaria Kliegel
Cologne Chamber Orchestra
Melmut Muller Bruhl, conductor
Pokorny, Franz Xaver (1729–1794)
HORN CONCERTO IN D: III. Tempo di giusto
Hermann Baumann, horn
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Iona Brown, director