Lindley, J. T. (2024). Allan Willcocks' 12 Studies for Guitar: An Examination of the Allan Willcocks Pseudonym and His Impressionistic Studies for Guitar. Retrieved from https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/diginole/Lindley_fsu_0071E_18727

This treatise will briefly explore the reasons a composer would accredit their own works to a different name other than theirs; whether the name is of another living or deceased composer, or a name that is fabricated altogether. This will serve as a prerequisite to the central topic on hand, an examination of a set of guitar studies composed by the German classical guitar pedagogue, performer, as well as composer, Tilman Hoppstock (1961-). In 1992, Hoppstock recorded a piece by an allegedly obscure composer, Franz Werthmüller (1769-1841), and for the next 15 years managed to keep the secret that Werthmüller was merely Hoppstock's first use of a pseudonym, to present a piece written in the style of an older musical era. In 2010, Hoppstock published a set of 12 studies, for the guitar, under another obscure composer, Allan Willcocks (1869-1956). Undoubtedly, Willcocks was in fact another pseudonym used by Hoppstock, and though this British composer came with an in-depth two-page biography, facsimiles of hand-written manuscripts, and even old...