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| | Johann Strauss II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Strauss' music is now regularly performed at the annual Neujahrskonzert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, thanks to the efforts of the late Clemens Krauss who performed a special all-Strauss programme in 1929 with the established orchestra. | | | The highlight of the Strauss triumvirate was displayed in the concert of 'Perpetual Music' in 1860s where his aptly titled 'Perpetuum Mobile' musical joke op. | | | Many distinguished Strauss interpreters include Willi Boskovsky who carried on the "Vorgeiger" tradition of conducting with violin in hand as is the Strauss family custom as well as the famous Herbert von Karajan and the opera conductor Riccardo Muti. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Strauss_II
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| | Lesson Tutor: Classical Composer Biography Johann Strauss II |
| | Johann Strauss senior was a world famous violinist; conducted his own band; and composed dance music. | | | Strauss recorded in one of his journals that at a London concert the audience demanded to hear it played an unbelievable 38 times. | | | There can be few who have not heard its wonderful lilting music, or who do not think of it at the mere mention of the name of Strauss. |
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| | Strauss Johan English |
| | Johann Strauß and the music of his era | | | Unknown to his father, however, Strauss had been learning the violin with Franz Anton and studying harmony and counterpoint with Joachim Hoffmann and Joseph Drechsler. | | | t was his mother, Anna, who encouraged Johann's ambition, who bought him his first violin and saw to it that he received musical instruction. |
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http://www.maurice-abravanel.com/strauss_johan_english.html
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| | Cornerstones |
| | When Johann senior found out, he smashed his son's violin to bits, but that didn't keep the young man from starting his own orchestra at age 19. | | | The pressure of managing the bands along with the constant demand to supply new music exhausted Johann junior and in 1853 he had a nervous collapse. | | | She saw to it that he secretly received musical instruction right under father's nose (as much for revenge as anything else, for her husband was frequently absent and unfaithful). |
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http://www.operaworld.com/cornerstones/fleder/fledbio.htm
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| | Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) : Library of Congress Citations |
| | Title: The Johann Strauss song book : containing twelve songs for solo voice and piano / lyrics by Geoffrey Dunn... | | | Title: Das kleine Johann Strauss Buch / Franz Mailer. | | | English Title: Johann Strauss, father and son; a century of light music. |
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http://www.malaspina.edu/~mcneil/cit/citlcstraussj.htm
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| | Société de musique viennoise du Québec |
| | Small musical groups abounded and for their repertoire, they drew upon the dance music in vogue at that time and from the abundant Viennese folk music. | | | The Strauss family has already retired from the world of dance music for a number of years. | | | Though the first waltzes of Strauss (father) were only simple folkloric dance suites of 8 measures, the waltz "Loreley-Rhein-Klänge" demonstrates the evolution of this brilliant café violinist who finished his carrer as the Director of Ballroom Music for the Austrian court. |
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| | The Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain |
| | The Society exists to promote the music of the Strauss Family and its musical contemporaries. | | | A new CD of rare music by Iosef Ivanovici, the Romanian contemporary of Johann Strauss II, has been released. | | | Josef is regarded by many authorities on Strauss music as being the greatest genius of the family. |
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http://www.johann-strauss.org.uk
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| | NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives |
| | He was born in Vienna as the eldest son of Johann Strauss the Elder, who at the time was considered the uncrowned king of dance music in Europe. | | | See http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002RMV/n ewsscancom/ for the audio CD of "Johann Strauss II: The Famous Waltzes" -- or look for it in the multimedia section of your favorite library. | | | Strauss's most famous single composition is An der schönen blauen Donau (The Blue Danube), the main theme of which became one of the best-known tunes in 19th-century music. |
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http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=536
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| | Johann Strauss Jr. |
| | JOHANN STRAUSS II Johann Strauss Sr., the most popular and successful conductor and composer of dance music of his time, discouraged his son's musical ambitions. | | | The Marco Polo Record people have, in cooperation with Professor Franz Mailer of the Strauss Society of Vienna, recorded practically all of the Strauss compositions, and for most of Strauss' compositions, the Marco Polo's are the only recordings which are available. | | | When we listen to a recording of, say, the Radetzky March, we are hearing the result of a modern-day orchestrator's opinion of what the Strauss Orchestra might have played, as notated for the published solo piano and not necessarily what Strauss had in mind! |
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http://www.bobjanuary.com/johann2.htm
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| | Although Strauss composed extensively for the theater, his supreme achievement remains his dance music. | | | When Johann left the orchestra in 1863, Josef and Eduard continued to conduct the family orchestra. | | | The younger Johann, however, displayed musical gifts at an early age. |
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http://www.sonoraproductions.com/s022589.html
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| | A golden musical moment Samizdata.net |
| | The music of the Strauss family was the genuine, popular article, the purest example of orchestral popular dance music ever created. | | | But the music of the original Strausses still plays on. | | | And what lovely music it is! I remember reading that when Herbert von Karajan got hired to conduct the New Year's Day concert in Vienna, in 1987, he experienced a sense of both musical and personal renewal. |
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http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/007259.html
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| | Johann Strauss II - Waltzer [HT]: Classical CD Reviews- July2002 MusicWeb(UK) |
| | They still have the marvellous poise and elegance that Strauss imbued his music, but the gloss has been taken off, and Schoenberg shows us that the structure is as beautiful as the façade. | | | Composers as diverse as Tchaikovsky and Pergolesi may have all been fuel for Stravinsky’s neo-classical engine, but there isn’t much synergy between Strauss and the Stravinsky chamber music that fills up the rest of the disc. | | | I would not recommend this disc on the strength of the Stravinsky alone - those looking for these works will find them all with the Septet in an even finer recording by Vladimir Ashkenazy and the European Soloists on Decca — but they do make interesting listening as a bonus to the Strauss waltzes. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/July02/Strauss_Stravinsky.htm
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| | MTV.com Movies Johann Strauss II Biography |
| | Essentially, he brought what amounted to a symphonic scope to the waltz, elevating it from light music to respectable concert music in the process. | | | And those are just some of the more obvious films that have made use of some of his music. | | | They obviously didn't come into their own until the advent of sound films in 1927, however, Germany's Ufa Studio produced an especially notable color version of Die Fledermaus in the early '40s. |
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http://www.mtv.com/movies/person/272834/bio.jhtml
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| | New Year's Concert 2001 |
| | If you like the music of the Strauss Family, then there is every reason for you to be beating a hasty path to your local retailer for this title. | | | The concert this year was under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, a name that I would not readily associate with the music of the Strauss family. | | | The dawn of the third millennium and people are still wandering into magnificent buildings from a much earlier age to listen to superb music created by and for a much different age - thereby continuing a tradition that has so far lived through sixty years. |
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http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/NewYearsConcert2001.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Wiener Phil...2001 : Music |
| | Musicologist and conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt is always ready to take a fresh look on venerable works such as Johann Strauss' Radetzky March, which opens and closes this two CD recording of the 2001 New Year's Day Concert at the Vienna Philharmonic's concert hall. | | | I have been an avid follower of the Vienna New Year's Concert for many years, and especially since the conductors chance every year it has become a very intersting musical offering. | | | A bonus disc of encores includes the exemplar of all Viennese waltzes, Johann Strauss II's Blue Danube, played to perfection. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000055XV2
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| | Johann Strauss |
| | So Johann studied the violin and music theory without his father's approval. | | | Strauss's orchestra, one of the finest in Europe, performed concert music by other composers as well, such as Ricard Wagner. | | | Johann Strauss I deserted his family when Johann II was a teenager. |
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http://www.bandbasics.com/Johann_Strauss.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: New Year's Concert 2003: Music |
| | New Year's Concert 2004; Audio CD ~ Johann II Strauss (Composer), et al | | | New Year's Day Concert 2002; Audio CD ~ Johann II Strauss (Composer), et al | | | The Vienna Philharmonic's New Year Concert, which has taken place annually since 1941, is possibly the most famous musical event in the world. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007BKJD
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| | Johann Strauss II |
| | Johann Strauss II Johann Strauss II Johann Strauss the Younger was the most famous and accomplished member of the musical dynasty that began with his father, Johann Strauss the Elder (1804-49), a noted violinist, conductor and composer. | | | They captured the mood of nineteenth-century Vienna - its sophistication and its hedonism. | | | Together with his brothers Josef and Eduard, who both wrote waltzes and polkas, the younger Strauss effectively ruled the dance music world of Vienna, the city of his birth, for most of the nineteenth century. |
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http://hem.passagen.se/alkerstj/worldofclassicalmusic/romantic/johann_strauss_ii.html
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| | Strauss Eduard English |
| | His destiny lay elsewhere, however, and on 11 February 1855 he made his debut with the Strauss Orchestra as a harpist, though he also played the violin. | | | In 1870 the brothers instigated Sunday afternoon concerts at Vienna's Musikverein (where the Strauss-dominated New Year's concert is now traditionally held) that turned out to be a huge popular and artistic success. | | | Many of his compositions compare favorably, however, with those of Johann and Josef, and as a performing musician, 'stylish Edi' was their equal. |
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http://www.maurice-abravanel.com/strauss_eduard_english.html
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| | Johann Strauss Society: Johann Strauss II |
| | His father, Johann Strauss the Elder, was by that time well on his way to becoming Europe's uncrowned king of dance music; indeed, it was only with Strauss senior's untimely death in 1849 that the younger man could advance his own musical standing in his native Vienna. | | | Last changed at 18:53 on Sunday, 22 April 2001 BST | | | Building upon the firm musical foundations laid by his father (1804-49) and Joseph Lanner (1801-43), Johann II (along with his brothers Josef and Eduard) developed the classical Viennese Waltz to the point where it became as much a feature of the concert hall as the dance floor. |
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http://www.johann-strauss.org.uk/composers/index.php3?content=johann2
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| | Strauss Dances |
| | Reductions in orchestration were made at that time by the elder Johann in order to meet the demands of smaller ensembles. | | | From the dance halls of Vienna their music spread around the globe, creating a demand which they helped to satisfy with tours of their own. | | | During the 1830s and 1840s, the elder Johann Strauss (1804-1849), the founder of the dynasty, made gruelling trips around Europe by coach. |
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http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/67169.asp
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| | WGBH Programs |
| | For many, the culminating musical event of the holiday season is this New Year's Day concert by the Vienna Philharmonic. | | | If you wish to watch the concert as well as listen to it, Walter Cronkite hosts Great Performances' TV broadcast, From Vienna: New Year's Celebration 2006, Saturday, Jan. 1, at 8pm on WGBH 2. | | | WGBH Radio and NPR present the traditional New Year's Day concert of the Vienna Philharmonic. |
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http://www.wgbh.org/schedules/program-info?program_id=2574238
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| | Decca Music Group - New Release |
| | It is fitting that the year in which Seiji Ozawa becomes the new Music Director of the Vienna State Opera should begin with him conducting the legendary annual New Year's Day Concert at the Musikverein which is enjoyed by millions around the world on television and radio. | | | Please note: some tracks may not appear on the final CD and some encore tracks may be added. | | | Johann Strauss II An der schönen, blauen Donau,Walzer, op. |
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http://www.deccaclassics.com/newsandnewreleases/january2002/468999.html
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| | Johann Strauss II |
| | Johann Strauss was the most famous member of his musically talented family. | | | After the death of his father Strauss joined the two orchestras under his direction. | | | He composed more than 400 waltzes, on which he became largely known for. |
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http://cis.kvcc.edu/HTMLStudents/AliJ/final/composers/stra.htm
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| | WFCR Public Radio for Western New England 88.5 FM - Daily Music Listings - July 24, 2002 |
| | Johann Strauss II: Errinerung an Covent-Garden (Memories of Covent Garden)-Waltz on English Popular Melodies, Op.329 (Johann Strauss O/Christopher Warren-Green, from The Strauss Album) Black Box 1059 | | | Johann Strauss II: Im Krapfenwald’l—Polka française, Op.336 (Johann Strauss O/Christopher Warren-Green, from The Strauss Album) Black Box 1059 | | | Strauss II: Perpetuum Mobile (The Comedian Harmonists, from The Comedian Harmonists) Flapper 7000 · Offenbach: Schöne Nacht, o Liebesnacht (Barcarolle) from The Tales of Hoffmann (The Comedy Harmonists, from The Comedy Harmonists) Naxos 8.120613 |
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| | DVD: NEW YEARS EVE CONCERT 2005: / MAAZEL, LORIN: VPO: - HMV Australia - Top Dog for Music CDs, CD Singles, Videos and ... |
| | The concert includes not only favourite orchestral items from the Strauss family played by one of the world's greatest orchestras, but also winningly beautiful ballet performances, too. | | | Relive the wonderful melodies and delightful atmosphere as Vienna celebrates the ringing in of another year as only they can! | | | For the ballet scenes, Vladimir Malakov, director of the Berlin State Opera Ballet, brought along his beautiful young soloist Polina Semionova - gold medal winner of two Moscow Ballet Competitions and the "rising star" of the classical ballet world. |
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http://www.hmv.com.au/product/dvd.asp?sku=960603
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| | Strauss organized his own orchestra in 1825 and toured Europe, popularizing the waltz. | | | After the death of the elder Strauss, he united his group with the orchestra his father had made famous. | | | His many tours through Europe and a visit to the United States in 1872 featured his own dance music, especially his waltzes. |
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http://www.csus.edu/indiv/c/craftg/HRS135/Strauss.doc
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| | Sensible Sound: Johann Strauss, II: Potpourris, Volumes 1 & 2. Christian Pollack, Slovak State Philharmonic ... |
| | The Waltz King, Johann Strauss, Jr., composed a number of stage works in addition to his formidable dance output, and it was not uncommon for these stage musicals to be arranged in concert patchworks or potpourris. | | | Sensible Sound: Johann Strauss, II: Potpourris, Volumes 1 and 2. | | | They featured bits and pieces from the larger works, each lasting 10 to 20 minutes or so, and they helped whet the public's appetite for the real thing. |
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| | CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Johann Strauss II |
| | Find the music of Johann Strauss II in the Archives. | | | Austrian composer, conductor, and violinist, eldest son of Johann Strauss, and deservedly known as ‘the Waltz King’. | | | Schoenberg, were what we should now call ‘fans’ of Strauss, recognizing a supreme master of a genre who comp. |
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http://www.classicalarchives.com/bios/codm/strauss2.html
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| | Music by Johann II Strauss |
| | by Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Recorded Sound, Johann II Strauss, Georg Philipp Telemann, The Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra | | | by Ludwig van Beethoven, Fryderyk Chopin, Franz Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Recorded Sound, Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Schubert, Bedrich Smetana, Johann II Strauss | | | by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Fryderyk Chopin, Claude Debussy, Manuel de Falla, Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Johann II Strauss, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky |
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| | - SHOP.COM |
| | It's relaxing, uplifting, and beautiful classical music that you can take pleasure in listening to. | | | Heard Before Classical Hits: JOHANN STRAUSS II Vol. |
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| | Johann Strauß |
| | Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941) (song "The Voices of Spring") (song title uncredited) (as Johann Strauss) | | | Baby Einstein: Baby Galileo Discovering the Sky (2003) (V) Alex & Emma (2003) (from "Perpetuum Mobile") (as Johann Strauss) | | | Find where Johann Strauß is credited alongside another name |
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| | ie Fledermaus - Johann Strauss II |
| | ie Fledermaus - Johann Strauss II Music by Johann Strauss II: Libretto by Richard Genée and Carl Haffner. | | | This one is usually danced to one of the famous Strauss waltzes, although, for the original, Strauss wrote a sequence of national dances Spanish, Scottish, Russian, Hungarian … Then the 'Hungarian Countess' obliges the guests by singing a native Hungarian folksong - a Czardas. | | | FINALE ACT II: (The entire company) - "And now my friends, let's waltz" |
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http://www.nodanw.com/shows_f/fledermaus.htm
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| | WFCR Public Radio for Western New England 88.5 FM - Daily Music Listings - February 18, 2004 |
| | CLASSICS DU JOUR: New Year’s Concert 2004 — Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic from the new CD set (DG B0001849-02) of this year’s edition of the popular annual event | | | Josef Strauss: Sphären-Klänge (Music of the Spheres), Waltzes, Op.235 | | | 10:04 Johann Strauss I: Cachucha-Galopp, Op.97 (Vienna Philharmonic/Riccardo Muti, from New Year’s Concert 2004) DG B0001849-02 |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Johann Strauss: Waltzes: Music |
| | Music Special Offers: get 3 CDs for £10, and more great deals. | | | Styles > Classical > Classical Instrumental > Composers > Q-T > Strauss, J | | | Orchestra: Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Johann II Strauss |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000060O5F
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| | Johann Strauss (II) |
| | Of his remaining operas, Capriccio (1942), a 'conversation-piece' in a single act set in the 18th century and dealing with the amorous and artistic rivalries of a poet and a musician, is the most successful, with its witty, graceful, serene score. | | | For a time he was head of the State Music Bureau and he once obligingly conducted at Bayreuth when Toscanini had withdrawn. | | | When Germany was defeated, and her opera houses destroyed, Strauss wrote an intense lament, Metamorphosen, for 23 solo strings; this is one of several products of a golden 'Indian summer', which include an oboe concerto and the Four Last Songs, works in a ripe, mellow idiom, executed with a grace worthy of his beloved Mozart. |
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http://www.musica.co.uk/composers/StraussR.htm
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