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  • Re: Highest Opus Number?

    From Sissel Ng@kawingng99@gmail.com to rec.music.classical on Thu Feb 1 19:46:12 2024
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    Richard Schultz oL? 1998o||5uLe20uuN uyfuLfE+eE+ioie3:00:00 [UTC+8] tUaE+iE+!o>2oUoN+U
    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?
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    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)
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