''Schubert: Thematic Catalogue of all his Works in Chronological Order'', also known as the Deutsch catalogue, is a numbered list of all compositions by

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...

compiled by

Otto Erich Deutsch Otto Erich Deutsch (5 September 1883 – 23 November 1967) was an Austrian musicologist. He is known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of Franz Schubert's compositions, first published in 1951 in English, with a revised edition pub ...

. Since its first publication in 1951, Deutsch (abbreviated as D or D.) numbers are used for the unique identification of Schubert's compositions.

1951 edition

The Deutsch catalogue was first published in London in 1951 by J. M. Dent & Sons, as ''Schubert: Thematic Catalogue of all his Works in Chronological Order, compiled by O. E. Deutsch, in collaboration with Donald R. Wakeling.''

1978 edition: NSE VIII/4

In 1978, as part VIII Supplement / Volume 4 of the

New Schubert Edition Franz Schubert (1797–1828): New Edition of the Complete Works (), commonly known as the New Schubert Edition (NSE), or, in german: Neue Schubert-Ausgabe (NSA), is a complete edition of Franz Schubert's works, which started in 1956 and is schedu ...

(NSE), an updated version of the catalogue was published in German. A few compositions that had been undated in the first edition received a new number (usually followed by a letter), e.g. was renumbered to .

Later versions

The original 1951 edition (in English) was re-issued several times, for instance in the United States by W. W. Norton. The 1978 version, published by

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, had a double objective: it was not only a list of Schubert's works as such, it was also the compendium of all scores published by that publisher in the New Schubert Edition.

New versions in English

In 1995

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republished the 1951 edition, with updates derived from scholarship that had been published since 1951.

New versions in German

From 1983 compact versions of the catalogue appeared, edited by

Werner Aderhold Werner Aderhold (4 November 1937 – 15 February 2021) was a German musicologist. Life Born in Dortmund, Aderhold was a long-time collaborator of the New Schubert Edition at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Initially, he contribute ...

and others. Changes to the numbering of Schubert's works were minor in these later editions.Aderhold 2012

References

Sources

* ''Thematisches Verzeignis der im Druck erschienenen Compositionen von Franz Schubert.'' Vienna:

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, 1852. *

Gustav Nottebohm Martin Gustav Nottebohm (12 November 1817, Lüdenscheid, Westphalia – 29 October 1882, Graz) was a pianist, teacher, musical editor and composer who spent most of his career in Vienna. He is particularly celebrated for his studies of Beethoven. ...

. ''Thematisches Verzeignis der im Druck erschienenen Werke von F. Schubert.'' Vienna: Schreiber, 1874. *

in collaboration with Donald R. Wakeling. ''Schubert: Thematic Catalogue of all his Works in Chronological Order.'' London: Dent — New York: W. W. Norton, 1951. * Maurice J. E. Brown
"The Musician's Bookshelf. 'Schubert: Thematic Catalogue of all his Works in Chronological Order.' By Otto Erich Deutsch."
in ''

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'' Vol. 92, No. 1300, , June 1951. * Otto Erich Deutsch. ''The Schubert Catalogue: Corrections and Additions.''

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, 1953. * Reinhard Van Hoorickx
"Franz Schubert (1797–1828) List of the Dances in Chronological Order"
in ''Revue belge de Musicologie''/''Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap'', Vol. 25, No. 1/4, , 1971 *Reinhard Van Hoorickx
"Thematic Catalogue of Schubert's Works: New Additions, Corrections and Notes"
in ''Revue belge de Musicologie''/''Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap'', Vol. 28/30, , 1974—1976. * Otto Erich Deutsch, with revisions by

and others.
Franz Schubert, thematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke in chronologischer Folge
' (New Schubert Edition Series VIII Supplement, Volume 4). Kassel:

, 1978. ISMN 9790006305148 — *Robert Winter. "Cataloguing Schubert" in ''19th Century Music'', November 1979 * Eva Badura-Skoda and Peter Branscombe. ''Schubert Studies: Problems of Style and Chronology''. Cambridge University Press, 1982. * Otto Erich Deutsch, edited by

Walther Dürr Walther Dürr (27 April 1932 – 6 January 2018) was a German musicologist. He is especially known for his research of the work of Franz Schubert. From 1965 to 1997 Dürr was editor of the '' Neue Schubert-Ausgabe'', with particular responsibility ...

Arnold Feil Arnold Feil (2 October 1925 – 30 March 2019) was a German musicologist and academic scholar. Life Feil was born in Mannheim, but grew up in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. He studied music (piano and conducting) at the Hochschule für Musik und Darste ...

. ''Franz Schubert: Werkverzeichnis — Der Kleine Deutsch.'' Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1983. – . (concise edition) * Otto Erich Deutsch
''The Schubert Thematic Catalogue.''
New York:

, 1995. – *

Barry S. Brook Barry Shelley Brook (November 1, 1918, New York City – December 7, 1997, New York City) was an American musicologist.''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Ninth edition,'' edited by Laura Kuhn, New York: Schirmer Books (2001) Educatio ...

, Richard J. Viano
''Thematic Catalogues in Music: An Annotated Bibliography'' — second edition, pp. 409–413

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, 1997. *

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''Franz Schubert: Deutsch-Verzeichnis — Studienausgabe''
Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2012. ISMN 9790006315864 —

External links

''Franz Schubert, Thematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke in chronologischer Folge''
on-line copy of the 1978 version at

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Neue Schubert-Ausgabe Franz Schubert (1797–1828): New Edition of the Complete Works (), commonly known as the New Schubert Edition (NSE), or, in german: Neue Schubert-Ausgabe (NSA), is a complete edition of Franz Schubert's works, which started in 1956 and is schedu ...

List of works by Franz Schubert Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an extremely prolific Austrian composer. He composed some 1500 works (or, when collections, cycles and variants are grouped, some thousand compositions). The largest group are the lieder ...

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555 on-line autographs of compositions by Schubert, ordered by D. number
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