Works Catalogue normalized from local corpus

Expanded Works Archive

Built from 362 local audio files. Titles are normalized into work-families and cycles, with variant aliases folded in when equivalence is clear. Ambiguous or noisy items are retained and explicitly labeled.

Period

Type

Early works · Solo piano · confidence: high

Ogives

family / cycle

Early austere chordal writing; appears as Nos. I–IV in the corpus.

Observed aliases
  • Ogives - No.I / No.II / No.III / No.IV

Early works · Solo piano · confidence: high

Sarabandes

family / cycle

Core early cycle (Nos. I–III), harmonically bold and restrained.

Observed aliases
  • Sarabandes - No.I / II / III

Early works · Solo piano · confidence: high

Gymnopédies

1888 cycle

Appears as Nos. I–III (unaccented spelling in filenames normalized).

Observed aliases
  • Gymnopedies - No.I / II / III

Early works · Solo piano · confidence: high

Gnossiennes

c. 1890s family

Multiple numbered items (I–VI) with punctuation/spacing noise normalized.

Observed aliases
  • Gnossiennes - No .I
  • Gnossiennes - No. II / III / IV Lent / V Modere / VI Avec conviction...

Early salon cluster · Solo piano · confidence: medium

Salon miniatures (early miscellaneous)

grouped family

Short titles clustered in the corpus: likely early salon / character pieces.

Included titles (normalized)
  • Allegro, Valse Ballet, Fantaisie-Valse, Petite ouverture à danser
  • Chanson hongroise, Passacaille, Prélude en tapisserie, Poudre d'or
  • Caresse, Verset laïque et somptueux, Le poisson rêveur, Fugue-valse

Mystical / Rose+Croix · Solo piano · confidence: high

Première pensée Rose+Croix

single work

Directly present as a standalone title in the esoteric folder.

Mystical / Rose+Croix · Solo piano · confidence: high

Sonneries de la Rose+Croix

three-part ceremonial cycle

Three signal-like pieces (Air de l'Ordre / du Grand Maître / du Grand Prieur).

Observed aliases
  • Air de l' Ordre, Air du Grand Maitre, Air du Grand Prieur

Mystical / stage cues · Theatre · confidence: high

Le Fils des étoiles

preludes by acts

Appears through three act-preludes (vocation / initiation / incantation).

Observed aliases
  • Prelude du 1er/2eme/3eme acte

Mystical / stage cues · Theatre · confidence: high

Uspud

act materials

Three act-labeled entries in the same esoteric corpus cluster.

Mystical / Rose+Croix · Piano / sacred cues · confidence: medium

Prière · Prélude de la porte héroïque du ciel · Préludes set

grouped family

A related set of devotional/esoteric titles, normalized from spelling variants.

Observed aliases
  • Prelude de la porte heroique du ciel, Prelude deginhard, Prelude du Nazareen

Mystical / Rose+Croix · Solo piano · confidence: high

Danses gothiques

nine-part cycle

Complete multi-item cycle appears with long subtitle variants in filenames.

Mystical / sacred · Vocal / liturgical · confidence: high

Messe des pauvres

sacred family

Appears as liturgical movement titles in the vocal corpus.

Cabaret / chanson · Vocal + piano arrangements · confidence: medium-high

Cabaret standards cluster

grouped family

Core Montmartre/café-concert titles recurring as songs and piano versions.

Included titles
  • Je te veux
  • La Diva de l'Empire
  • Le Piccadilly
  • Le veuf, Un dîner à l'Élysée, Petit recueil des fêtes items

Cabaret / mélodies · Vocal · confidence: high

Mélodies families

cycles and song sets

Corpus includes multiple named vocal sets with consistent family naming.

Included families
  • Trois Mélodies
  • Trois autres Mélodies
  • Trois poèmes d'amour
  • Quatre petites Mélodies
  • Ludions
  • Bonjour Biqui, bonjour!

Humorous miniatures · Solo piano · confidence: high

Froides & Nouvelles pièces froides

cold pieces family

Normalized from multi-level numbering and punctuation variants.

Humorous transition · Piano duet · confidence: high

Trois morceaux en forme de poire

multi-part family

Appears as movement-level filenames (Manière de commencement, Prolongation, En plus, Redite).

Humorous transition · Piano duet · confidence: high

Aperçus désagréables · En habit de cheval

paired duet families

Both cycles appear with movement-level entries and stable naming.

Humorous miniatures · Solo piano · confidence: high

Descriptions automatiques · Embryons desséchés

1913 satirical piano core

Two central satirical families, fully represented by numbered movements.

Humorous miniatures · Solo piano · confidence: high

Croquis et agaceries · Chapitres tournés en tous sens

paired miniature families

Movement-level track names normalized and grouped at cycle level.

Humorous miniatures · Solo piano · confidence: high

Vieux sequins et vieilles cuirasses

three-part cycle

Consistent movement labeling; includes historical parody subtitles.

Domestic grotesques · Solo piano · confidence: high

Children and domestic cycles cluster

grouped family

A substantial corpus section of concise piano miniatures with narrative captions.

Included cycles
  • L'enfance de Ko-Quo
  • Trois nouvelles enfantines
  • Menus propos enfantines
  • Enfantillages pittoresques
  • Peccadilles importunes
  • Les pantins dansent

Humor / miniatures · Solo piano · confidence: high

Sports et divertissements

extended miniature suite

Appears as a long numbered sequence in the corpus (No. I–XXI).

Humor / anti-grandiloquence · Solo piano · confidence: high

Avant-dernières pensées · Sonatine bureaucratique

paired family

Canonical satirical/pastiche works, consistently titled in the collection.

Humor / miniatures · Solo piano · confidence: high

Préludes flasques (pour un chien) family

including variant naming

Grouped from two-prelude and véritables-préludes filename variants.

Stage / theatre · confidence: high

Le Piège de Méduse

dance sequence

Complete theatrical dance items (Quadrille, Valse, Mazurka, Polka, etc.).

Stage / ballet · confidence: high

Parade

ballet family

Core sequence present; one movement also appears in rediscovery folders as a duplicate variant.

Stage / theatre · confidence: high

Jack in the Box

prelude / entr'acte / final

Clear tri-part structure in filenames; some numbering artifacts retained in aliases.

Stage / theatre · confidence: high

Geneviève de Brabant

theatrical family

Prelude + act excerpts and interludes grouped from multiple track labels.

Stage / theatre · confidence: high

Cinq grimaces pour Le Songe d'une nuit d'été

five-part family

Appears consistently as a five-item theatrical set.

Stage / ballet · confidence: high

Mercure

ballet family

Multi-item ballet sequence represented across numbered track entries.

Stage / late modern · confidence: high

Relâche · Entr'acte

ballet + film-score complex

Relâche appears in two parts; Entr'acte appears as film-linked score material.

Stage-adjacent · confidence: medium-high

La Belle excentrique

suite family

Full family present; one movement duplicated in rediscovery folders.

Functional / stage experiment · confidence: high

Musique d'ameublement

concept family

Appears explicitly in stage cluster as furniture-music material.

Large vocal works · confidence: high

Socrate

three-part dramatic family

Present as Portrait de Socrate / Bords d'Illissus / Mort de Socrate.

Late works · Solo piano · confidence: high

Nocturnes

five-part cycle

Complete set represented with minor filename encoding artifacts.

Late works · Solo piano · confidence: medium

Premier menuet + nocturne satellites

late cluster

Includes Premier menuet and nocturne-related sketch/companion titles.

Uncertain placement · Sketch/posthumous · confidence: medium

Carnet d'esquisses et de croquis

notebook family

Sketchbook-like entries, references, and fragmentary labels; retained as a separate family.

Uncertain placement · confidence: low-medium

Douze petits chorals pour piano

uncertain dating context

Work identity appears stable in naming, but period placement is kept uncertain pending score-level verification.

Uncertain placement · confidence: medium

Rediscoveries / appendix items

mixed bucket

Includes duplicate movements, arrangement variants, and items with unresolved title encoding or edition context.

Notable ambiguity examples
  • Parade and La Belle excentrique movement duplicates across folders
  • Version-pour-piano-seul and extrait variants (likely arrangements)
  • No . I / No I / No. I punctuation variants and mojibake in a few titles

Ambiguities & needs verification

We keep uncertain items visible instead of forcing certainty. This catalogue is normalized from filenames, not from manuscript-critical editions.

  • Composer spelling variants: Eric/Erik forms normalized together.
  • Cycle movement duplicates: repeated entries across “rediscovery” folders are folded but flagged.
  • Arrangement vs original: version pour piano seul / extrait files grouped as aliases unless clearly independent works.
  • Encoding noise: accent loss and occasional mojibake kept in alias notes, not in display titles.
  • Incomplete numbering: items with partial numbering remain in uncertain or family buckets until externally verified.