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In the classical period, the Latin word opus ("work", "labour"), plural opera, was used to identify, list, and catalogue a work of art. [1]By the 15th and 16th centuries, the word opus was used by Italian composers to denote a specific musical composition, and by German composers for collections of music. [2]
For example, Schubert's first set of Impromptus was published as Op. 90 and is now catalogued as D 899, but concert programmes, CDs and reference works commonly refer to Schubert's "Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899". Some catalogues have appendices (German: Anhang, abbreviated as Anh.) for doubtful and/or spurious works, arrangements, etc.
In music, Op. 1 stands for Opus number 1. Compositions that are assigned this number include: Bach – Partitas for keyboard; Bartók – Rhapsody;
Edvard Grieg: the fourth piece of his Lyric Pieces, Op 54 is a nocturne; Arthur Honegger: Nocturne for orchestra (1936, partly based on music from ballet Sémiramis) Vasily Kalinnikov: Nocturne in F ♯ minor, for piano (1894) Jan Kalivoda: Six Nocturnes for Viola and Piano, op. 186; Friedrich Kalkbrenner: 4 nocturnes for solo piano
The Grosse Fuge (German: Große Fuge, also known in English as the Great Fugue or Grand Fugue), Op. 133, is a single-movement composition for string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven. An immense double fugue, it was universally condemned by contemporary music critics.
Mendelssohn was by then the music director of the King's Academy of the Arts and of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. [8] A successful presentation of Sophocles' Antigone on 28 October 1841 at the New Palace in Potsdam, with music by Mendelssohn (Op. 55) led to the King asking him for more such music, to plays he especially enjoyed.
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Most of Beethoven's best known works were published with opus numbers, with which they may be reliably identified.Another 228 works are designated WoO (Werke ohne Opuszahl – literally, "works without opus number"), among them unpublished early and occasional works (Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, WoO 87), published variations and folksong arrangements (25 Irish Songs, WoO 152 ...