Anthony van Hoboken
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Anthony van Hoboken
(b Rotterdam, 23 March 1887; d Zürich, 1 Nov 1983). Dutch collector and bibliographer. He studied at Frankfurt and with Schenker in Vienna. From 1919 he built up a collection of first and early editions amounting to some 5000 items, over 1000 of Haydn, of whose music he published a thematic catalogue (1957, 1971), with works identified by h or Hob. numbers.
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Anthony van Hoboken
Anthony van Hoboken (23 March 1887 – 1 November 1983) 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. He began collecting early editions of music from Bach to Brahms; eventually this collection amounted to over 5,000 items and is now in the Austrian National Library in Vienna. He moved from Austria to Switzerland in 1938.
Nowadays he is best known for his J. Haydn, Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis (published 1957), or Hoboken-Verzeichnis, a catalogue of the compositions of Joseph Haydn. Haydn's works are often referred to by their "Hoboken number" (usually abbreviated to "Hob" or just "H"), taken from this catalogue.
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Hoboken, Anthony van. In: Haydn (Oxford Composer Companions), Ed Wyn Jones D. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002.
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