Hoboken catalogue

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The Hoboken catalogue is a complete listing of Joseph Haydn’s musical works, compiled by Anthony van Hoboken. It aims to cover Haydn’s whole output and includes more than 750 items. Its German title is Joseph Haydn, Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis. The project began in 1934 as card files and the final volume was published in 1978. Works are usually cited with a Hoboken number, for example Violin Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIa:1. The current edition runs about 1936 pages. Each entry shows the piece’s incipit (opening musical line) and notes on manuscript sources, early editions, and how it relates to earlier catalogues (Haydn prepared two). The catalogue is organized by genre rather than by date: symphonies are in category I, string quartets in III, keyboard sonatas in XVI, and so on.