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What is a magnum opus?

What is a magnum opus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A great or important work of literature, music or art, a masterpiece.
  2. The best, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an author or artist, representing their major life effort.
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Unfortunately, U.S. sales of your magnum opus are inadequate to inspire the publisher to exercise those paperback rights he insisted on buying.
A central theme of his poetry, as well as of his magnum opus, the novel Doctor Zhivago, is man's destiny in revolutionary times.
Those who believe that Blake was implacably opposed to science would be surprised to read the final lines of his magnum opus, The Four Zoas.
In 1974 he published what many regard as his magnum opus, Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence.
That same year he began his magnum opus, the extraordinary Merzbau, an architectonic assemblage which gradually overwhelmed his Hanover home.
His magnum opus, The History of Liberty, remains scattered in thousands of boxes of notes in the library.

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