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The Köchel catalogue (German: Köchel-Verzeichnis) is a chronological catalogue of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, originally created by Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, in which the entries are abbreviated K. or KV. Its numbers reflect the ongoing task of compiling the chronology of Mozart's works, and provide a shorthand reference to the compositions.
According to Köchel's counting, Requiem in D minor is the 626th piece Mozart composed, thus is designated K. 626.
Köchel's original catalogue (1862) has been revised; catalogue numbers from the sixth edition are indicated either by parentheses or by superscript: K. 49 (47d) or K.6 47d.
History
In the decades after Mozart's death there were several attempts to catalogue his compositions, for example by Franz Gleißner and Johann Anton André (published in 1833), but it was not until 1862 that Ludwig von Köchel succeeded in producing a comprehensive listing. Köchel's 551-page catalogue was titled Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichniss sämmtlicher Tonwerke W. A. Mozart's (Chronological-thematic Catalogue of the Complete Musical Works of W. A. Mozart).[1] Köchel attempted to arrange the works in chronological order, but many compositions written before 1784 could only be estimated, although Leopold Mozart had compiled a partial list of his son's earlier works; Mozart's catalogue of his own compositions (begun in February 1784 with K. 449) allows relatively precise dating of many of his later works. The catalogue included the opening bars of each piece, known as an incipit. Köchel divided the corpus into a main chronology of 626 works, and five appendices (Anhänge in German), abbreviated Anh. I–V which comprise:
- I – Lost authentic works
- II – Fragments by Mozart
- III – Works by Mozart transcribed by others
- IV – Doubtful works
- V – Misattributed works
Since Köchel published his original catalogue in 1863 (now referred to as K1), the dating of Mozart's compositions has been subject to constant revision. Many more pieces have since been found, re-dated, re-attributed and re-numbered, requiring three revised editions of the catalogue. Subsequent editions – especially the third edition (K3) by Alfred Einstein (1937), and the sixth edition (K6) by Franz Giegling, Gerd Sievers , and Alexander Weinmann (1964) – have reflected attempts to arrange the growing list of works in a more accurate chronological order, according to various levels of scholarship.
A major shortcoming of K1 was that there was no room to expand the strictly sequential numbering in the main catalogue to allow for any new discoveries or further reassessment of existing works. For the 1937 edition (K3) Einstein (following the analyses of Théodore de Wyzewa and Georges de St. Foix) reassigned some works from the original K1 appendices into the main catalogue by interpolating numbers with a lower-case letter suffix. In K6 some of these were, per intervening scholarship, returned to re-structured appendices:
- K. 626a
- K. 626a I – 64 cadenzas by Mozart to his own keyboard concertos
- K. 626a II – Cadenzas by Mozart to keyboard concertos by other composers
- K. 626b – 42 sketches & other fragments by Mozart (replacing K3 Anh. II)
- Anh. A – Copies by Mozart of other composers' works
- Anh. B – Works by Mozart transcribed by others
- Anh. C – Doubtful and misattributed vocal (C 1–10) and instrumental (C 11-30) works
For example, Divertimento for Wind Octet in E♭ was numbered Anh. 226 in K1; Einstein placed it in the K3 main catalogue as K. 196e, between K. 196 and K. 197; K6 reassigned it again to the 'doubtful' appendix C as Anh. C 17.01. Some works in Anh. A have been identified since 1965 as by Leopold Mozart. Many works in Anh. C have since been more reliably assigned to other composers, or to Mozart himself.
Edition | Year | Editors | Note |
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1 | 1862 | Ludwig von Köchel | Original |
2 | 1905 | Paul von Waldersee | Limited revision: mostly addition of pieces that had since come to light |
3 | 1937 | Alfred Einstein | |
4 | 1958 | Unchanged reprint | |
5 | 1961 | ||
6 | 1964 |
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7 | 1965 | Unchanged reprint | |
8 | 1983 |
List of existing Mozart compositions
To maintain as much of the original K-numbering of the list as possible, while re-ordering in the revised, chronological sequence, letters were added to the new numbers. The following list shows Köchel's original designation (K1) and the sixth edition (K6). Other addenda and supplements to the catalogue are marked Anhang. (This has been abbreviated to 'Anh.' in the list below.)
K1 | K6 | Composition | Date | Age | Location |
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1a | Andante in C for Piano | early 1761 | 5 | Salzburg | |
1b | Allegro in C for Piano | early 1761 | 5 | Salzburg | |
1c | Allegro in F for Piano | 11 December 1761 | 5 | Salzburg | |
1d | Minuet in F for Piano | 16 December 1761 | 5 | Salzburg | |
1 | 1e | Minuet in G for Piano | December 1761 – January 1762 | 5–6 | Salzburg |
1 | 1f | Minuet in C for Piano | December 1761 – January 1762 | 5–6 | Salzburg |
2 | 2 | Minuet in F for Piano | January 1762 | 6 | Salzburg |
3 | 3 | Allegro in B-flat for Piano | 4 March 1762 | 6 | Salzburg |
4 | 4 | Minuet in F for Piano | 11 May 1762 | 6 | Salzburg |
5 | 5 | Minuet in F for Piano | 5 July 1762 | 6 | Salzburg |
9a | 5a | Allegro in C for Piano | 1764 | 8 | Salzburg |
9b | 5b | Andante in B-flat for Piano | 1764 | 8 | Salzburg |
6 | 6 | Violin Sonata No. 1 in C | 1762–64 | 6–8 | Salzburg or Paris |
7 | 7 | Violin Sonata No. 2 in D | 1762–64 | 6–8 | Salzburg or Paris |
8 | 8 | Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-flat | January 1764 | 7–8 | Paris |
9 | 9 | Violin Sonata No. 4 in G | January 1764 | 7–8 | Paris |
10 | 10 | Violin Sonata No. 5 in B-flat | 1764 | 8 | London |
11 | 11 | Violin Sonata No. 6 in G | 1764 | 8 | London |
12 | 12 | Violin Sonata No. 7 in A | 1764 | 8 | London |
13 | 13 | Violin Sonata No. 8 in F | 1764 | 8 | London |
14 | 14 | Violin Sonata No. 9 in C | 1764 | 8 | London |
15 | 15 | Violin Sonata No. 10 in B-flat | 1764 | 8 | London |
Anh. 109b | 15a – 15ss | The London Sketchbook, 43 untitled pieces | 1765 | 9 | London |
16 | 16 | Symphony No. 1 in E-flat | August/September 1764 | 8 | London |
Anh. 220 | 16a | Symphony in A minor, Odense (doubtful) | 1765 | 9 | London |
19 | 19 | Symphony No. 4 in D | 1765 | 9 | London |
Anh. 223 | 19a | Symphony in F | early 1765 | 9 | London |
Anh. 222 | 19b | Symphony in C (fragment) | 13 May 1765 | 9 | London |
21 | 19c | Aria for Tenor, "Va, dal furor portata" | 1765 | 9 | London |
19d | Piano Sonata in C for Four-Hands (doubtful) | 13 May 1765 | 9 | London | |
20 | 20 | Motet in G minor, "God is our refuge" | July 1765 | 9 | London |
Anh. 206 | 21a | Variations in A | July 1765 | 9 | London |
22 | 22 | Symphony No. 5 in B-flat | December 1765 | 9 | The Hague |
23 | 23 | Aria for soprano and orchestra "Conservati fedele" | October 1765 and January 1766 | 9–10 | The Hague |
24 | 24 | 8 Variations in G on "Laat ons Juichen" | 7 March 1766 | 10 | The Hague |
25 | 25 | 7 Variations in D on "Willem van Nassau" | 7 March 1766 | 10 | Amsterdam |
26 | 26 | Violin Sonata No. 11 in E-flat | February 1766 | 10 | The Hague |
27 | 27 | Violin Sonata No. 12 in G | February 1766 | 10 | The Hague |
28 | 28 | Violin Sonata No. 13 in C | February 1766 | 10 | The Hague |
29 | 29 | Violin Sonata No. 14 in D | February 1766 | 10 | The Hague |
30 | 30 | Violin Sonata No. 15 in F | February 1766 | 10 | The Hague |
31 | 31 | Violin Sonata No. 16 in B-flat | February 1766 | 10 | The Hague |
32 | 32 | Gallimathias musicum (quodlibet) | early March 1766 | 10 | The Hague |
32a | The Third Sketchbook (lost) | Winter 1765–66 | 9–10 | Netherlands | |
33 | 33 | Kyrie in F | 12 June 1766 | 10 | Paris |
33a | Solos for Flute (lost) | 1766 | 10 | Lausanne | |
33B | "Klavierstück" in F | early October 1766 | 10 | Zürich | |
33b | Solos for Cello (lost) | 1766 | 10 | Donaueschingen | |
33c | "Stabat mater" for 4 voices in G (lost) | 1766 | 10 | Paris or Salzburg | |
Anh. 199 | 33d | Piano Sonata in G (fragment; lost) | 1766 | 10 | Salzburg |
Anh. 200 | 33e | Piano Sonata in B-flat (fragment; lost) | 1766 | 10 | Salzburg |
Anh. 201 | 33f | Piano Sonata in C (fragment; lost) | 1766 | 10 | Salzburg |
Anh. 202 | 33g | Piano Sonata in F (fragment; lost) | 1766 | 10 | Salzburg |
33h | Waldhornstück (lost) | 1766 | 10 | Salzburg | |
36 | 33i | Recitative and aria for tenor and orchestra, "Or che il dover – Tali e cotanti sono" | December 1766 | 10 | Salzburg |