Doppelganger

The Australian musician Franz Holford, who died in 1994, and whose birth and background have remained a mystery to the musical world, was variously described throughout his professional lifetime as German, German/English and German/Australian; said to have been born in Heidelberg in 1907 of a father who, he claimed at different times to different people, was either a surgeon and private consultant to Kaiser Wilhelm, or was the conductor Felix Weingartner.

Claiming to be a piano pupil of the ...