Köchel catalogue son's earlier works; Mozart's catalogue of his own compositions (begun in February 1784 with K. 449) allows relatively precise dating of many of his later works. The catalogue included the opening bars of each piece, known as an incipit. Köchel divided the corpus into a main chronology of 626 works, and five appendices ("" in German, abbreviated to "Anh.") The appendices (Anh. I-V) included: Since Köchel published his original catalogue in 1863 (now referred to as K), the dating of Mozart's compositions has been subject to constant revision. Many more pieces have since been found, re-dated, re-attributed and re-numbered, requiring
Köchel catalogue and Georges de St. Foix) reassigned a number of works from the original K appendices into the main catalogue by interpolating new numbers into the main sequence with a lower-case letter suffix. In K some of these were reassessed in the light of scholarship since 1937 and returned to the re-worked appendices: For example, the Divertimento for Wind Octet in E♭ was numbered Anh. 226 in K; Einstein placed it in the K main catalogue as K. 196e, between K. 196 and K. 197; K reassigned it again to the 'doubtful' appendix C as Anh. C 17.01. Some works in