[78-L] Haydn numbers

[Don Cox]

On 15/02/2012, David Lennick wrote:

> It looks as if the change might have been gradual, with old recordings
> retaining their original numbers. A 1941 catalog lists Symphonies 4,
> 6, 13 in G Major (haven't cross referenced to see what that one might
> be), 67, 80, 85, 92, 100, 102 and 104.
> 
> Dvorak's Symphonies were renumbered as well, so you'll find the New
> World called #5 well into the fifties. And many older recordings of
> Schubert's Great C Major call it the 7th instead of the 9th.
> 

Also Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas (555 of them), which were numbered by
Longo (in 1906), then by Kirkpatrick (1953) and then by Pestelli (1967).

I haven't seen the P numbers used in practice. Kk is most common
nowadays.

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Don Cox
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