Lists of Compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Author | : Source Wikipedia |
Publisher | : Booksllc.Net |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 1230816321 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781230816326 |
Rating | : 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Kochel catalogue, List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, List of concert arias, songs and canons by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, List of masses by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, List of operas by Mozart, List of solo piano compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, List of sonatas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Excerpt: The Kochel-Verzeichnis is a complete, chronological catalogue of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) which was originally created by Ludwig von Kochel. It is abbreviated K. or KV. For example, Mozart's Requiem in D minor was, according to Kochel's counting, the 626th piece Mozart composed. Thus, the piece is designated K. 626 or KV 626. Kochel catalogue numbers not only attempt to establish chronology, but also give a helpful shorthand to refer to Mozart's works. In the decades after Mozart's death there were several attempts to catalogue his compositions, but it was not until 1862 that Ludwig von Kochel succeeded. Kochel's 551-page catalogue was titled Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis sammtlicher Tonwerke W. A. Mozart's (Chronological-thematic Catalogue of the Complete Musical Works of W. A. Mozart). The catalogue included the opening bars of each piece, known as an incipit. Kochel attempted to arrange the works in chronological order, but the compositions written before 1784 could only be estimated. Since Kochel's work, many more pieces have been found, re-attributed, and re-dated, requiring three catalogue revisions. These revisions, especially the third edition by Alfred Einstein (1937), and the sixth edition by Franz Giegling, Gerd Sievers, and Alexander Weinmann (1964), incorporated many corrections. 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....