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Chopin composed more than 200 works during his lifetime and dedicated most of them to his friends and students. Works with opus numbers from 1 to 65 (except opus 4) were published during Chopin's lifetime. Although Chopin wished to destroy all of his unpublished manuscripts, Chopin's friend Julian Fontana, with the consensus from Chopin's mother and sisters, selected more than 20 piano pieces and published them under opus numbers from 66 to 73 in 1855, and 17 songs under opus 74 in 1859. There were also works without opus number published during Chopin's lifetime and other posthumous works not published by Fontana (e.g. opus 4 was first published by Charles Haslinger in 1851, two years after Chopin's death), all of which were later catalogued by Maurice John Edwin Brown (Br Index), Józef Michał Chominski (C Index), and Krystyna Kobylanska (KK Index).

Br Index is in chronological order of composition. C Index is in alphabetical order starting from works with opus and ending with posthumous works. KK Index follows the same method as C index using page numbers. For more information on these indices, visit "Catalogue des oeuvres de Chopin": [Br Index], [C Index], [KK Index].

Please click on each section to view the works, manuscript copies, dedications, quotes, notes, years of composition and publication. Works are sorted by Opus Number, Br Index, and Year.

   ▪  WORKS WITHOUT OPUS : INDEXED WORKS | UNINDEXED WORKS
   ▪  WORKS WITH OPUS    :
                          01-05 | 06-10 | 11-15 | 16-20 | 21-25
                          26-30 | 31-35 | 36-40 | 41-45 | 46-50
                          51-55 | 56-60 | 61-65 | 66-70 | 71-74

   ▪  WORK LIST IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER OR BY GENRE: >>> Music analysis

     Albumblatt         Canon               Funeral March       Scherzo
     Allegretto         Cantabile           Galop Marquis       Sonata 
     Allegro Concert    Concerto            Impromptu           Song
     Andantino          Contredanse         Largo               Tarantella
     Ballade            Duo Concertant      Mazurka             Trio
     Barcarolle         Ecossaise           Nocturne            Variation
     Berceuse           Etude               Polonaise           Waltz
     Bolero             Fantasia            Prelude  
     Bourrée            Fugue               Rondo

Complete list of dedications, quotes, and publication time are first made available online at this website. Please do not copy and redistribute at another website without necessary citation. Many thanks to Minh Khoa for typing part of the quotes.

Work list was modified from the lists by Maurice Brown, Józef Chominski, Krystyna Kobylanska, and Roman Mueller. Illustrations were courtesy of the Chopin Society and the National Library in Warsaw. Dedications were compiled from various score editions. Quotes on selected works were gathered from the archive of the National Library in Warsaw and "Selected correspondence of Fryderyk Chopin" by Arthur Hedley published by Heinemann.

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