User talk:Mordant21

Hi Mordant and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm surprised no one has welcomed you yet, so you get a personal welcome from another music editor.

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Regarding your question on listing works without opus number, there really isn't a standard way. Beethoven's works have been catalogued as WoO (works-without-opus) but for a lot of other composers, the works just appear in the list without a number. You can use "WO" or "No opus" or whatever you like. The New Grove uses a table format with opus in one column and empty entries in cells without numbers. Good luck with the Saint-Saëns project! We need good editors on the classical music articles. Happy editing, Antandrus 03:34, 9 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings[edit]

Hi! In expanding and improving the coverage of belle époque composers in English wikipedia, would you be interested in incorporating interesting material from the French-language version? (My own attachment to music from that period has compelled me to start acquiring some basic reading ability in French; maybe you also hold an enthusiasm for the language?) Although the articles in the French edition are often briefer than their English counterparts, they sometimes contain important details that are omitted elsewhere, especially when it comes to biographical profiles of composers. Take a look, for instance, at the French page for Saint-Saëns which recounts the early commendations he received from Berlioz and Liszt, and names Gabriel Fauré and André Messager among his pupils. Happy editing! --Defrosted 03:53, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I speak enough French to read the articles; thanks for the tip. I think I'll start adding these facts in as soon as possible. --Mordant21 5:00, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

List of compositions by Claude Debussy[edit]

Hello. While it is certainly true that Claude Debussy didn't order his compositions by opus number, the titles of his works are sometimes tagged with the chronological catalog numbers that were assigned to them by the musicologist François Lesure (abbreviation L.) I certainly applaud the work you have done so far in sorting the works by genre in the list that you have created. If you wish to consult the L. numbers, as well as to peruse other details which may warrant inclusion on this list, please refer to http://infopuq.uquebec.ca/~uss1010/catal/debussy/debc.html. That website also hosts a collection of other catalogs of the works of classical composers. I believe it would be a worthwhile project if we adapted some of the other lists and translated them from French into English on Wikipedia. Regards, --Defrosted 00:15, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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