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Here we are! Another rather stupid thread I have started because I have too much time on my hands.

Let's start with Opus 1...that would be Rach 1 for me, no competition.

This doesn't give us a lot of choices.

Hmmm, toss-up between Chopin's Rondo and the pair of Etudes by de Schloezer?

Or do the 'rules' here extend to chamber, symphonic and non-piano music, too?

I'm not sure I understand. We're advancing one by one? Or just throwing op. numbers at each other?

If it's the latter then Op. 100, Prokofiev's 5th symphony!

EDIT: Ah... now I get it. When we reach op. 100 let me know! :P

Easy:

Beethoven: Piano Trios
Schumann: ABEGG Variations
Elgar: Wand of Youth Suites

All works I love, though in the case of the Elgar, they are arrangements of tunes he wrote as a boy, though not published for full orchestra until 1907. (He did, however, assign an Op 1 designation.)

I once heard a crackling performance of the Beethoven Eb Trio (Op 1 #1) on a rainy afternoon in London at St. Bride Fleet Street. The pianist -a young lad of around 18- was excellent.

S.3 is clearly Liszt's great masterpiece 'Christus.'

Or are we just doing Op. numbers?

I also love Rachmaninoff's Morceaux de Fantasie.

Anyway, for Op. 1 I really like Brahms' first piano sonata. I like Rach's first PC, also.

Op. 2 goes to Beethoven's wonderful Op. 2 No. 3.

I like Webern's and Berg's op.1's.

All right, let's move on to Opus 2.

Beethoven's is the best I can think of now. Chopin's is also a nice piece. Rachmaninov has a couple beautiful cello and piano pieces for Opus 2. There's also the Brahms 2nd Sonata and a Mendelssohn Piano Quartet.

Easily Scriabin's op. 2 no. 1 etude.

^Or that.

Almost everyone is going to have the same answer for 52 and 111 if we get that far.

Hold your horses! We'll get there!

The Scriabin is a great piece, of course.

I have a feeling this will be a fun thread.

Would assume you meant '53'. Op 52 is a set of 8 Lieder.

And it's also arguably the greatest solo piano work ever composed.

Chopin op 52. Beethoven 111.

OPUS THREE. Anyone?

106 also, of course. But let's not get ahead of ourselves...

I think we're ready for Opus 3.

As I mentioned before, Rachmaninoff.

That's if we're not including S numbers, or BWV's, or D.***, in which case I have to choose Liszt's Christus.

For the so-called 'middle period' works, I wouldn't argue!