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Re: Highest Opus Number?

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by: Sissel Ng - Fri, 2 Feb 2024 03:46 UTC

Richard Schultz 在 1998年5月20日星期三下午3:00:00 [UTC+8] 的信中寫道：
> A lot of prolific composers didn't use opus numbers for most (Schubert)
> or all (Bach) of their compositions. I was wondering, of those composers
> who did use opus numbers, who made it to the highest number? The highest
> I can think of is Czerny, who got up to Op. 861. Of people I can
> think of immediately, Milhaud (Op. 441) comes in a distant second,
> although I think that there are other Czerny-esque composers (of
> exercises and such) who also got into big numbers. Does anyone out
> there know of any composers who got to an opus number bigger than 861?
> -----
> Richard Schultz sch...@mail.biu.ac.il
> Department of Chemistry tel: 972-3-531-8065
> Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel fax: 972-3-535-1250
> -----
> And when I found the door was shut,
> I tried to turn the handle, but --

For now, excluding contemporary composers (Like Stephen W. Beatty with his Op.3169 currently) and joke/comedy (Like the PDQ Bach as mentioned below.)
Charles Grobe seems to have one of the highest opus numbers in his piano work The Old Oaken Bucket. (Op.1990)

They finally got King Midas, I hear. Gild by association.

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