Classical Music: Fakes, Completions and the Art of Borrowing Professor Christopher Hogwood

Although Mozart s unfinished Requiem is the most publicised composition requiring a helpinghand, there are many similar incomplete maybe masterpieces which have been assisted in some way, plus a number of wellloved classics which have very little connection with their supposed author ( Albinoni s Adagio heads such a list). In addition composers of all periods have been open to the art of borrowing Handel was particularly active in this area and the reasons and results of his borrowings shed a new