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Why are all Mozart's works prefixed with a 'K'?

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DavidJames | 18:23 Wed 27th Dec 2000 | Music
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Why are all Mozart's works prefixed with a 'K'?
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Chap called Ludwig Koechel numbered them in date order in the latter part of the 19th century
09:20 Wed 03rd Jan 2001
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As dmaude said, Mozart's compositions were extensively and completely catalogued by one Ludwig, Ritter von Kochel. (With an umlaut over the "o.") A learned musician and naturalist he lived in Salzburg and Vienna. According to Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "his work as a botanist and mineralogist does not concern us; as a musician he has immortalized his name by his chronological and thematic catalog of all Mozart's works." Thus it is common to attach the "K" number to one of Mozart's works in music programs. (Programmes, if you're British.)
09:11 Mon 08th Jan 2001

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