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

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.

Keywords

• oratorio
• forgery
• naples
• andrea favi
• venice