The Hoboken-Verzeichnis is the catalogue of over 750 works by Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...

 as compiled by Anthony van Hoboken

Anthony van Hoboken

Anthony van Hoboken was a collector and musicologist. He was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and died in Zürich, Switzerland.Hoboken trained as an engineer in Delft, before studying music in Frankfurt and Vienna...

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Unlike Ludwig von Köchel's catalogue of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

's works, or Otto Erich Deutsch

Otto Erich Deutsch

Otto Erich Deutsch was an Austrian musicologist. He is known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of the works of Franz Schubert, first published in 1951 in English, new edition in 1978 in German...

's catalogue of Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...

's works, which are both arranged chronologically by date of composition, Hoboken's catalogue, like Wolfgang Schmieder

Wolfgang Schmieder

Wolfgang Schmieder was a German musicologist.Schmieder was born in Bromberg. In 1950, he published the BWV, or Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis , a catalog of musical works by Johann Sebastian Bach. The numbering system used in the BWV has since become a nearly universal standard, used by scholars and...

's catalogue of Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

's works, is arranged by form of work. All the symphonies, for example, are in category I, all string quartet

String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...

s are in category III, piano sonata

Piano sonata

A piano sonata is a sonata written for a solo piano. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement , two movements , five or even more movements...

s are in category XVI, and so on.

Hob.	Category
I	Symphonies (1–108)
Ia	Overtures (1–16)
II	Divertimenti in 4 and more Parts (1–47)
III	String Quartets (1–83b)
IV	Divertimenti in 3 Parts (1–11)
V	String Trios (1–21)
VI	Various Duos (1–6)
VII	Concertos for Various Instruments
VIII	Marches (1–7)
IX	Dances (1–29)
X	Various Works for Baryton Baryton The baryton is a bowed string instrument in the viol family, in regular use in Europe up until the end of the 18th century. In London a performance at Marylebone Gardens was announced in 1744, when Mr Ferrand was to perform on "the Pariton, an instrument never played on in publick before." It most...  (1–12)
XI	Trios for Baryton, Violin or Viola and Cello (1–126)
XII	Duos with Baryton (1–25)
XIII	Concertos for Baryton (1–3)
XIV	Divertimenti with Piano (1–13)
XV	Trios for Piano, Violin or Flute and Cello (1–40)
XVa	Piano Duos
XVI	Piano Sonatas (1–52)
XVII	Piano Pieces (1–12)
XVIIa	Piano 4 Hands (1–2)
XVIII	Keyboard Concertos (1–11)
XIX	Pieces for Mechanical Clock (Flötenuhr) (1–32)
XX	Works about The Seven Last Words of Christ The Seven Last Words of Christ The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour On the Cross is an orchestral work by Joseph Haydn, commissioned in 1785 or 1786 for the Good Friday service at Cádiz Cathedral in Spain...
XXa	Stabat Mater Stabat Mater (Haydn) Joseph Haydn's Stabat Mater Hob. XXa:1 was written in 1767, for soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, mixed choir, 2 oboes both doubling English horn in the sections in E-flat major, strings and organ continuo. The first performance is believed to have taken place March 25, 1768 in Vienna with...
XXI	Oratorios (123 The Seasons (Haydn) The Seasons is an oratorio by Joseph Haydn .-Composition, premiere, and reception:Haydn was led to write The Seasons by the great success of his previous oratorio The Creation , which had become very popular and was in the course of being performed all over Europe... )
XXII	Masses (1–14)
XXIII	Other Sacred Works
XXIV	Cantatas and Arias with Orchestra
XXV	Songs with 2, 3, and 4 Parts
XXVI	Songs and Cantatas with Piano
XXVII	Canons (Sacred 1–10; Secular 1–47)
XXVIII	Opera (1–13)
XXIX	Marionette Operas (Singspiele)
XXX	Incidental Music
XXXI	Arrangement of Scottish (273) and Welsh (60) Folksongs

External links

• Hoboken-Verzeichnis at Classical Music Pages
• French Webpage on Hoboken Catalogue