Originally posted by EdgeleyRob
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The difference being that in non-English literature/speaking areas KV is used, in English speaking countries K.
K. however is also used for e.g. Kirkpatrick (Scarlatti as well as Ives!, in English and non-English areas/literature) or for Kindermann (Busoni's output, almost exclusively in English literature, the German one uses Kind.).
The letter V is (universally and hence in English speaking countries too) used in catalogue numbers like Schmieder's Bach Werke Verzeichnis BWV, the Schütz Werke Verzeichnis SWV, the Händel Werke Verzeichnis HWV or the Wagner Werke Verzeichnis WWV, or the Buxtehude Werke Verzeichnis BuxWV, etc.
It's only consequent to use KV, but that's obviously personal taste.
Note that there are many catalogue numbers named after the authors, like D for Deutsch (Schubert, in Germany infrequently DV), J for Jähn (Weber), Wotq for Wotquenne (CPEBach), P for Pincherle (Vivaldi, again in Germany infrequently PV), M for Moldenauer (Webern), B for Burghauser (Dvorak), H for Halbreich (both Honegger and Martinu !) , Hob. for Hoboken (Joseph Haydn), Kind for Kinderman (Busoni, see also above), S for Searle (Liszt), R for Ryom (Vivaldi, increasingly cited as RV), TN for Threfall and Norris (Rachmaninov).
Remarkably Asov's work catalogue of Richard Strauss' output is universally cited as AV.
With increasing frequency we see WoO (Werk ohne Opusnumber / Work without an opusnumber) numbers appear:
the first time used by Kinsky/Halm in the 1955 BeethovenVerzeichnis, these now have adopted for i.a. Brahms, Schumann, Spohr
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