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Op. 3

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ30614659 ↗
Source-derived summary

In music, Op. 3 stands for Opus number 3. Compositions that are assigned this number include:

Bach – Organ concerto

Beethoven – String Trio

Berg – String Quartet

Britten – A Boy Was Born

Chopin – Introduction and Polonaise brillante

Dvořák – Symphony No. 1 in C minor "The Bells of Zlonice"

Gottschalk – La Savane

Handel – Concerti Grossi, Op. 3

Haydn – String Quartets, Op. 3

Kreisler – Tambourin Chinois

Mendelssohn – Piano Quartet No. 3

Myaskovsky – Symphony No. 1

Rachmaninoff – Morceaux de fantaisie

Rachmaninoff – Prelude in C-sharp minor

Rautavaara – A Requiem in Our Time

Schumann – Etudes After Paganini Caprices

Sibelius – "Arioso", art song (1911)

Stamitz – Symphony in D major, Op. 3, No.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Op. 3” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Wikimedia, disambiguation and page can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 2, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q30614659. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1911.

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This entry incorporates text from “Op. 3” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.