[net.music.classical] Mozart KV

djo@(.UUCP (02/17/85)

I was reading the classical music news today and was reminded of a question
a friend posed to me several days ago.  How do you spell Mr. K_____'s
name--i.e. the chap that  listed and classified all Mozart's works.
After Mozart's works there's always a KV number , someone Verzeichnis.
I know what a verzeichnis is but don't recall Mr. K's real name and how to
get some information about him.  Where would one find this out?

          Thanks in advance,

                             Denis Johnson , AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, n.j.

                                             electronic add.  hou2e!djo

prk@charm.UUCP (prk) (02/19/85)

	Re: Mozart's KV:
 
	That's KOECHEL (OE standing for o umlaut).


	The British wag Michael Flanders used to refer to
the Koechel number as the Koechel rating.  Veddy dry.

jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) (02/22/85)

The K. stands for Koechel, who was a musicologist before some wise guy
invented the word and ruined the whole concept. :-)

                    *** REPLACE JEFF WINSLOW WITH YOUR MUSIC ***


PS. Does anyone know the source of the quote, "Musicology!? You may as well
    talk about grandmotherology!!" (or something like that)

benk@inmet.UUCP (02/23/85)

	The 'K' in 'K.V.' stands for 'Koechel'.  The 'oe' should
	*realy* be o-umluat, but there isn't an umlaut in the
	ascii character set ( a fatal deficiency, if you ask me ).
	You could have probably found this out by consulting the
	"Harvard Dictionary of Music" or "Grove's Dictionary
	of Music and Musicians".


	Ben Krepp
	{ihnp4,harpo,ima}!inmet!benk

chism@reed.UUCP (Christine N Chism) (03/14/85)

The name of the cataloguer is Kochel with " over the o.