Angloise (French term for English

country dance A country dance is any of a very large number of social dances of a type that originated in the British Isles; it is the repeated execution of a predefined sequence of figures, carefully designed to fit a fixed length of music, performed by a ...

) is a piece of classical music in D minor for piano from ''Notebook for Wolfgang'' written for

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...

by his father Leopold Mozart. However,

Wolfgang Plath Wolfgang Plath (27 December 1930 – 19 March 1995) was a German musicologist specialising in research on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Life Born in Riga, Plath studied musicology under Walter Gerstenberg, first at the Free University of Berlin, then ...

has shown in 1973 that publication to be a forgery.

References

Compositions by Leopold Mozart Compositions with a spurious or doubtful attribution Compositions for solo piano Compositions in D minor {{Classical-composition-stub