Early Mozart Scholarship
Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, an independently wealthy botanist, educator
and amateur musician, and Otto Jahn, professor of philology and archaeology
at the University of Bonn, coordinated their research to produce, respectively,
the first complete catalogue of Mozart’s works and the first Mozart
biography based upon modern scholarly principles. Taken together, these
two publications provided the foundation for subsequent Mozart scholarship.
After completing his catalogue, Köchel helped to finance and organize
the first complete, generally reliable edition of all of Mozart's works.
Such a project would have been impossible prior to his and Jahn's research.
Reprints from this monumental publication continue to serve performers
in all parts of the world.
[top] Ludwig Köchel, Chronologisch-thematisches
Verzeichniss sämmtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amade Mozart. Leipzig:
Breitkopf & Härtel, 1862. [middle] Otto Jahn, W. A. Mozart,
4 vols. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1856-59; facsimile reprint,
1976. [bottom] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Werke: Kritisch durchgesehene
Gesamtausgabe, 40 vols. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1877-1905;
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