oeuvre

noun,plural oeu·vres [œ-vruh]. French. the works of a writer, painter, or the like, taken as a whole. any one of the works of a writer, painter, or the like.

/ˈɜːvrə/ [singular] (from French, formal) ​all the works of a writer, artist, etc. Picasso's oeuvre. She created an oeuvre that is both refreshing and overwhelming.

Examples of 'oeuvre' in a sentence

1. Had he persisted he would have had a minority report and the much-admired oeuvre would have been greeted with derision.
2. He created not just an immense oeuvre but a host of repertories, all at once, for the different musical departments.

The oeuvre of a writer or artist refers to all their work combined. Writing one book isn't much of an oeuvre, but writing ten could be. This is a French word often used by critics - people who comment on the work of writers, painters, musicians, and other artists. An oeuvre is the total output of an artist.

An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.

mag·​num opus ˈmag-nəm-ˈō-pəs. Synonyms of magnum opus. : a great work. especially : the greatest achievement of an artist or writer.

oeuvre /ˈʊvrə/ Brit /ˈəːvrə/ noun. plural oeuvres.

The phrase body of work refers to the production of a single artist, writer, or composer. So does corpus (Latin for body) and oeuvre (French for work). Such terms become literal through the artist's depiction of the body itself.

Your body of work could be about a certain subject (landscapes, seascapes, still life etc.), or it could be on any subject whereby you employed a certain style or a unique media as your focus.

Synonyms of musician (noun person who performs music) artist. composer. conductor. entertainer. instrumentalist.

oratorio, a large-scale musical composition on a sacred or semisacred subject, for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra.

A prelude (German: Präludium or Vorspiel; Latin: praeludium; French: prélude; Italian: preludio) is a short piece of music, the form of which may vary from piece to piece.