How do you say "WoO"?

[Chris]

Referring of course to the Kinsky-Halm catalog of Beethoven's works without an opus number.

[Chris]

I must confess that I say it "woo" as in "woo-hoo!". For some reason this gives me endless amusement.

[Roehre]

Referring of course to the Kinsky-Halm catalog of Beethoven's works without an opus number.

double-u - oh - oh (in German: way - oh - oh)

[Peter]

The same as Roehre - is Beethoven the only composer to have a WoO catalogue? I can't think of others.

[Michael]

On BeethovenOnly radio they pronounce it as "woo" (as in "making amorous advances"). It certainly saves time in announcing each work.
Personally, I never thought about how to pronounce it as I never said it aloud.

[Hofrat]

I have Brahms' complete solo piano music. Brahms had a few WoO's in that genre. I would imagine there are others amongst his other genres. Not a lot like Beethoven but a few.

[Preston]

I must confess that I say it "woo" as in "woo-hoo!". For some reason this gives me endless amusement.

I do the same thing. It seems I read somewhere years ago, when I was trying to figure out what "WoO" meant, the correct pronunciation was "woo" as in "woo-hoo" - ever since then I have said woo.

[Roehre]

The same as Roehre - is Beethoven the only composer to have a WoO catalogue? I can't think of others.

As Hofrat rightly writes, Brahms is one of the composers of whose works a catalogue has been produced with WoOs. But there are more: the outputs of
Schumann, Witt (from Jena-sympohony fame), Schoeck, Draeseke at least are cast in work catalogues in which WoO appears for those works of their's which weren't published with an opus-number.

[Peter]

I have Brahms' complete solo piano music. Brahms had a few WoO's in that genre. I would imagine there are others amongst his other genres. Not a lot like Beethoven but a few.

Who is playing in your complete set? I also apparently have a complete set played by Julius Katchen - the only thing on it that has no catalogue are the 21 Hungarian dances, but they aren't given a WoO.

[Roehre]

Who is playing in your complete set? I also apparently have a complete set played by Julius Katchen - the only thing on it that has no catalogue are the 21 Hungarian dances, but they aren't given a WoO.

The Hungarian Dances are WoO 1
Scherzo (FAE-sonata) WoO 2
2 Gavottes WoO 3
2 Gigues WoO 4
2 Sarabandes WoO 5
51 Etudes WoO 6
Chorale prelude and Fugue WoO 7
Fugue a-flat minor WoO 8
Prelude and Fugues WoO 9-10
...
Missa canonica WoO 17 & 18
...
Songs WoO 19-30
Volkslieder (Folk songs) WoO 31-38

[Peter]

The Hungarian Dances are WoO 1
Scherzo (FAE-sonata) WoO 2
2 Gavottes WoO 3
2 Gigues WoO 4
2 Sarabandes WoO 5
51 Etudes WoO 6
Chorale prelude and Fugue WoO 7
Fugue a-flat minor WoO 8
Prelude and Fugues WoO 9-10
...
Missa canonica WoO 17 & 18
...
Songs WoO 19-30
Volkslieder (Folk songs) WoO 31-38

Thanks Roehre - when was this WoO catalogue for Brahms done?

[Roehre]

Thanks Roehre - when was this WoO catalogue for Brahms done?

The first time I came across them, was in an updated reprint (as book: The New Grove Late Romantic Masters, 1985) of the New Grove's article re Brahms.
They are taken from:
McCorkle, M.L.,
Johannes Brahms - thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis,
Henle Verlag, Munich, 1984 (an impossibly expensive catalogue )