Köchel number
English
Etymology
Named after Austrian musicologist Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800–1877).
Noun
Köchel number (plural Köchel numbers)
- A number assigned to each work composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- Synonym: K
- 2014, Virginia Euwer Wolff, The Mozart Season, Square Fish, →ISBN, page 78:
- Every Mozart piece has a Köchel number. The Fourth Concerto is K. 218, and the highest Köchel number is 626. I was spending my summer with a Köchel number.
Further reading
Köchel catalogue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “Köchel number”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.