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| | Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This is the scherzo movement of the symphony, which depicts the country folk dancing and reveling. | | | One of Beethoven's few works of program music, the symphony was labeled at its first performance with the title "Recollections of Country Life." | | | The coda, which Antony Hopkins has called "arguably the finest music of the whole symphony," starts quietly and gradually builds to an ecstatic culmination for the full orchestra (minus "storm instruments"), with the first violins playing very rapid triplets at the top of their range. |
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| | Beethoven, Ludwig van - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Beethoven, Ludwig van |
| | Beethoven's repertoire includes concert overtures; the opera Fidelio (1805, revised 1806 and 1814); 5 piano concertos and 1 for violin&; 32 piano sonatas, including the Moonlight (1801) and Appassionata (1804–05); 17 string quartets; the Mass in D (Missa solemnis) (1819–22); and 9 symphonies, as well as many youthful works. | | | His best-known symphonies are the Third (Eroica) (1803), originally intended to be dedicated to Napoleon, with whom Beethoven became disillusioned, the Fifth (1807–08), the Sixth (Pastoral) (1808), and the Ninth (Choral) (1817–24), which includes the passage from Johann Schiller's ‘Ode to Joy’ chosen as the anthem of Europe. | | | He was aware of the problems his music created for listeners and performers alike (part of the slow movement of the Choral Symphony had to be cut at its premiere), but although audiences of the day found his visionary late music difficult, Beethoven's reputation was well established throughout Europe. |
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| | Symphony No. 6 (Mahler) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Symphony No. 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler, sometimes referred to as the Tragische ('Tragic'), was composed between 1903 and 1904 (rev. 1906; scoring repeatedly revised). | | | Perhaps because of its grim overall mood and its shatteringly pessimistic outcome, the symphony is not the most popular Mahler symphony amongst 'general' listeners. | | | The first movement also features a soaring melody which the composer's wife, Alma Mahler, claimed was representative of her; this melody is now often known as the "Alma theme". |
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| | October 17 |
| | Beethoven became fascinated with the musical sounds of nature years before the composition of the "Pastoral" Symphony: as early as 1803, he notated in one of his sketchbooks a musical rendition of the sound of water in a stream. | | | With the Sixth Symphony, the evidence is much more concrete than in the other cases, since we have Beethoven's own titles for the individual movements. | | | Just as the Fifth Symphony's gloomy C-minor Allegro is connected to the finale without a pause, the last three movements of the "Pastoral," the country dance, the storm, and the thanksgiving song, form an uninterrupted sequence. |
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| | Program Notes - Beethoven & Schubert in Vienna |
| | It really is the signature of the symphony, for it is itself unfinished: the cellos pass the theme to the violins, who in turn leave one of the most passionate melodies of all time hanging mid-phrase. | | | Beethoven’s arrival in the countryside is signalled by a suitably rustic drone from the violas and cellos, while the violins introduce the serene but lively first theme, the “awakening of joyful feelings.” The bucolic mood is maintained with uncharacteristically simple harmonies and textures, and themes evocative of peasant dances. | | | Meanwhile, the Symphony in B minor was the work of a man searching for a solution to a puzzle: exploring innovations in melodic style and bold musical gestures, and developing long-range harmonic expression and astonishing modulations hitherto unknown. |
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http://www.apollosfire.org/program_notes/prog_note_Beet_Schub.htm
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| | Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphonies |
| | The symphony was first performed on 5 April 1803 at a concert at the Theater an Der Wien which also included the premieres of Beethoven's C minor piano concerto and oratario 'Christus am Oelberge'. | | | Beethoven's use of this A-B-A-B-A structure for a scherzo was the result of his quest to expand his writing musically and structurally at this time. | | | Beethoven provides interesting colour effects by having the timpani tuned to octave Fs, an effect he was to repeat in the scherzo of the 9th Symphony. |
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| | Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony 5 |
| | Beethoven completed this c minor symphony at nearly the same time he finished the F major Symphony, the Pastorale, and, at that first concert, it was the Pastorale that bore the number five. | | | The program, consisting entirely of Beethoven premieres, began with the Symphony no. 6, followed, in order, by the concert aria, "Ah, perfido", two movements from the Mass in C major, the Fourth Piano Concerto, the Symphony no. 5, and, last but not least, the Choral Fantasy. | | | On December 22, 1808, Viennese devotees of new music made their way to the Theater-an-der-Wien for the most significant concert of the year, one of the most significant concerts in all of music history. |
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| | Beethoven, Symphonies 5 and 6, Boston Symphony Orch. |
| | Beethoven, Symphonies 5 and 6, Boston Symphony Orch. | | | I'm sitting here listening to the second movement of the 5th Symphony in the recording by Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony, and there is something more to say: It's just wonderful in unexpected ways. | | | Subtlety and delicacy are not something we usually think of in relation to Beethoven, but there are passages here that are sheer gossamer, juxtaposed with the more characteristic "Sturm und Drang" in a seamless tapestry both majestic and poignant. |
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http://www.greenmanreview.com/cd/cd_beethoven_sym5and6.html
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| | Beethoven - Triple Concerto, Symphony No 6 (Pastoral): LSO/Haitink @ Barbican Hall, London : concert review |
| | I was disappointed by the first movement of the Pastoral Symphony, which seemed to lack the glow and sunshine that is inherent in the fabric of this music. | | | The pairings of different works have been so far invigorating, with the subtle dignity of the Violin Concerto and Seventh Symphony in the first concert well contrasted with the whirlwind colours of the Second and the Eroica in the second instalment. | | | Haitink's Beethoven is a varied creature, and the LSO's cycle of his symphonic music gets more intriguing with each new concert. |
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http://www.musicomh.com/opera/lso-beethoven-3_1105.htm
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| | Beethoven: Symphony No. 5; Symphony No. 6; Eleven Viennese Dances Classical Music Online |
| | Naxos continues to release discs in its series of Beethoven recordings by Felix Weingartner (1863-1942) who was the first conductor to record all the Beethoven symphonies. | | | My introduction to the British Symphony Orchestra heard here was a recording from the same year of the Violin Concerto, which featured a sublime reading of the solo part by Joseph Szigeti and rather lame conducting by Bruno Walter. | | | This is by far the most organic and selfless recording of the fifth symphony I have ever heard in my life. |
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http://www.onlineclassical.com/ItemId/B00008GQHL
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| | DVD-Audio Review: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (Macal) - ‘Beethoven: Symphony No. 6’ |
| | Beethoven actually composed the Sixth Symphony in 1807-1808, although he had jotted down the musical idea that appears in the slow movement several years earlier. | | | This recording was made in the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s new auditorium at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center using state of the art Euphonix digital recorders and consoles and an assortment of microphones. | | | It received its premier at a mammoth concert in December 1808 that included the premier of the Fifth Symphony, the Fourth Piano Concerto, the Choral Fantasy and four other works – and some concert that must have been. |
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http://www.highfidelityreview.com/reviews/review.asp?reviewnumber=651790
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| | Beethoven Symphony No.6 on Record |
| | This symphony is exactly suited to the glowing mellowness of Walter's last recordings and is a sheer delight from beginning to end. | | | Quite my favourite version of this symphony is the 1952 VPO/Furtwängler recording, but its slow tempi, particularly in the first two movements, are not to all tastes. | | | There are also several live recordings around by Furtwängler, but none of them, with the possible exception of the May 1954 BPO performance (his last of the symphony) surpass this studio effort. |
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http://turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca:8080/Beethoven/Symphony6
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| | Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony 6 |
| | Beethoven produced so much music during this period that he was uncertain which symphony was finished first. | | | Here's the program: first, the Symphony no. 6, followed, in order, by the concert aria, "Ah, perfido", two movements from the Mass in C major, the Fourth Piano Concerto, the Symphony no. 5, and, last but not least, the Choral Fantasy. | | | Although early sketches for this symphony date from 1802, its actual composition waited until the summers of 1807 and 1808. |
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http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/beethoven_sym6.html
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| | BEETHOVEN |
| | Beethoven in 1808 was still "modern music"; an equivalent experience today might see a four-hour concert of Elliott Carter or Witold Penderecki. | | | The Sixth is the only symphony in which Beethoven departed from the traditional four-movement format. | | | The brook goes on forever; the importance of that fact lies in its effect upon the poetic mind of the listener basking in the sun on its banks." Near the end of the movement we hear instrumental effects simulating the calls of the nightingale (flute), quail (oboe) and cuckoo (clarinet). |
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| | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Piece Detail |
| | The yellow bunting is not labeled, but Beethoven indicated to Schindler its more important fluttering figure, appearing earlier in the flute, then violas, bassoon, clarinet, and first violins. | | | There were plenty of precedents for a programmatic "Pastoral" such as this, particularly Le Portrait musical de la nature, a symphony of five similarly titled movements composed in 1784 by the music director for the Stuttgart court, Justin Heinrich Knecht. | | | Both symphonies had their first performances December 22, 1808, on an ill-fated mega-concert that also included the concert aria "Ah! |
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| | :: INKPOT : Mahler Symphony No. 6 - Atlanta SO, Levi, Telarc |
| | The Sixth Symphony is an architectonic work, not a scenic one like the first five Mahler symphonies; spontaneity, rhetoric drive, and poetic imagination are consequently just what a good performance of it needs. | | | Under its Romanian music director Yoel Levi the Atlanta Symphony has reached unprecedented heights of technical brilliance and must now be ranked amongst the top US orchestras. | | | This approach worked wonders in his recording with the same orchestra of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, but here it comes off as clinical and trite. |
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| | Fantastic Metropolis » Symphony no. 6 in C minor ‘The Tragic’ by Ludwig van Beethoven II |
| | We hope that this recording will help to establish this symphony as a standard work of the concert repertoire. | | | There is a great deal of bravura piano writing, but it is clear that Beethoven did not fully understand the limitations of piano playing, and the piece is completely impossible for a single pianist to play. | | | In this piece the violin parts in several places would be possible to play only if the violinists were to have the same deformity of the left hand as that suffered by Beethoven. |
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| | Amazon.com: Beethoven: Symphony No. 6; Schubert: Symphony No. 8: Music: Ludwig van Beethoven,Franz Schubert,Andre ... |
| | There were three classic accounts of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony from the LP era: this mono Berlin one from 1955, Klemperer's 1957 stereo version with the Philharmonia Orchestra on EMI, and Karl Boehm's 1972 Vienna Philharmonic recording on DG, also in stereo. | | | Symphony No. 8 in B minor ("Unfinished"), D. Composed by Franz Schubert | | | Klemperer's version (which is very well recorded for its age) remains controversial as a result of the rather slow tempo he adopted for the 'Peasants' merrymaking' 3rd movement, but his interpretatio!n does grow on you. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004S667?v=glance
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| | The season opens Sept. 13 and 14 with Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World''), Brahms' ''Academic Festival'' Overture and the young, glamorous all-female Eroica Trio in Beethoven's Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano. | | | On the season roster are Mozart's Symphony No. 40 (''Jupiter''), Brahms' Second Symphony, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 (''Pathetique''), Richard Strauss' ''Don Juan'' and ''Till Eulenspiegel'' and Ravel's ''Daphnis and Chloe'' Suite No. 2. | | | Janacek, Suite from ''The Cunning Little Vixen.'' Bartok, Violin Concerto No. 2. |
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| | ArkivMusic Beethoven: Symphony No 1 & 6 / Szell, Cleveland Orchestra |
| | Beethoven: Symphony No 1 & 6 / Szell, Cleveland Orchestra | | | George Szell brings classical lightness and drive to Beethoven's early symphony, all the while pointing up the composer's daring formal and harmonic inventiveness. |
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| | Beethoven, Symphony No 6 in F Major. Op. 68 DVD-A/V reviewed on AudioRevolution.com |
| | Here we have the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra conducted by their musical director Zdenek Macal, recorded in their own Performing Arts Center in Newark, NJ. | | | The album pairs Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony with Respighi’s symphonic tone-poem, Pines of Rome. | | | The AIX approach to recording involves using the highest-quality gear the company can lay their hands on to record at 24-bit, 96 kHz sampling, which is what DVD-Audio was made for. |
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| | Beethoven - Symphony No. 6: Pastoral |
| | Beethoven stated that the music is "the expression of feelings rather than painting." You can hear representations of the sounds of nature with shepherd pipes and calls, country dances, watery sounds and bird calls - all flowing with a sense of the spiritual. | | | The sixth symphony celebrates the composer's delight and love of nature. | | | The National Orchestra of Lille performs Beethoven's "Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Opus 68 (Pastoral)." |
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| | 'Beethoven - Symphony No 6' by Ludwig van Beethoven from The Portsmouth Chorus. |
| | Click for more related Music about 'Beethoven - Symphony No 6' - from ThePortsmouthChorus.com. | | | This unique document of the Pastorale, taped live in Munich in 1983 (according to the liner notes the only time Kleiber performed this symphony), is no exception. | | | Also available on Audio Cassette - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7; Haydn: Symphony No. 10; Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream [CASSETTE] |
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| | SA-CD.net - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra/Walter |
| | By the time conductor Bruno Walter got around to recording this reading of the Beethoven Sixth Symphony, almost everybody who was anybody in classical music of that era agreed that he practically owned the contemporary performance rights to utter preeminence in this work. | | | A performance of Beethoven's Pastoral symphony that speaks with the true voice of the composer and cannot be faulted in any way. | | | This is an excellent performance of one of Beethoven's famous symphonies. |
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| | DVD4Music.com: DVD: Beethoven : Symphony No.6 / Respighi Pines of Rome - DVD-Audio - Beethoven : Symphony No.6 / ... |
| | Hear a world-class orchestra in performances of Beethoven's "Symphony No. 6" and Respighi's "Pines of Rome," recorded using 24 high resolution audio channels, complete with multiple camera angles video. | | | The first symphonic DVD product where the listener can choose to sit in the midst of the sound or in the best seat in the house. | | | Beethoven : Symphony No.6 / Respighi Pines of Rome - DVD-Audio - Beethoven : Symphony No.6 / Respighi Pines of Rome |
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| | Beethoven - Symphony No.6 [KS]: Classical CD Reviews- Aug 2002 MusicWeb(UK) |
| | Bernstein and his Young Person’s Concerts have we had such detail, care and quality in a series of recordings intended to broaden our appreciation of music. | | | Beethoven - Symphony No.6 [KS]: Classical CD Reviews- Aug 2002 MusicWeb(UK) | | | Add to that Siepmann’s charming and down-to-earth speaking manner, and a couple of hundred musical examples, you have a truly winning product here. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Aug02/Beethoven_symphony6.htm
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| | SonyMusicStore: George Szell Beethoven: Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"; Egmont Overture |
| | In the Pastoral Symphony, the brooding genius of Vienna created a joyous celebration of country life, peasant dances, rustic romance and the beauty and power of nature. | | | Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral"; Fidelio Overture [CD] | | | SonyMusicStore: George Szell Beethoven: Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"; Egmont Overture |
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| | ArkivMusic Beethoven: Symphony No 6, Etc / Dohnányi, Cleveland Orchestra |
| | George Szell's classic Cleveland recording is one of the choice Pastorales, but this 1987 performance (now at mid-price), with playing that's just as accomplished and phenomenal sound, is one of those rare modern Beethoven symphony recordings you can actually get excited about. | | | But there's still more, as the clouds part and Dohnányi's vibrant conducting ushers in the symphony's joyously radiant conclusion. | | | Beethoven: Symphony No 6, Etc / Dohnányi, Cleveland Orchestra |
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| | Aesthetic Realism Commentary on World Music Examples |
| | Later in this excerpt, as the music achieves a resolution of those dissonances and cross-rhythms, we arrive clearly and melodiously in E minor—yet calm as this resolution undoubtedly feels after the turmoil of what came before, it is structurally tense: E minor is very distant from the fundamental key of the movement, Eb major. | | | To the second clarinet “call,” he answers with a 2 bar “paraphrase” of all 6 bars of previous clarinet melody. | | | It is no wonder, historically, that his music took late 18 |
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| | MusicaBona CD Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral" |
| | This Ninth Symphony was performed with great success on 7th May 1824. | | | In April 1800 he gave a concert at the Burgtheater that included his First Symphony. | | | New York Philharmonic Orchestra ; Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra ; Dimitri Mitropoulos ; Recordings: 1940 |
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| | Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (DVD AUDIO) @ EzyDVD |
| | Daniel Barenboim brings to life Beethoven's 6th "Pastorale" Symphony on this DVD-Audio. | | | Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (DVD AUDIO) @ EzyDVD | | | Only TV monitors equipped with NTSC playback facility can replay this DVD in full colour. |
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| | andante boutique - beethoven - symphony no 2 & no 6 |
| | The Pastoral is a search for Paradise.' So it's back to the sources, but without any attempt at 'baroquising' the music: '. | | | 6-9 Symphony no 2 in D Major opus 36 32:00 | | | It's necessary for orchestras and audiences alike to play this inexhaustible music again and again. |
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| | SonyMusicStore: Bruno Walter Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale" |
| | Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale" [Super Audio CD] | | | Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Expanded Edition [CD] | | | Brahms: Symphony No.1; Haydn Variations; Academic Festival Overture [CD] |
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| | eBay - symphony no 6 all products at low prices |
| | Herbert Von Karajan - Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 | | | 6 matches found for 'symphony no 6' in All Products | | | Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 / Eugene Onegin Ballet Music |
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| | Ludwig Van Beethoven - Theme from Symphony No 6 Sheet Music (Print Instantly) |
| | Theme from Symphony No 6 digital sheet music. | | | After purchasing this digital sheet music title you will be given the opportunity to print all pages of sheet music for this arrangement. | | | Ludwig Van Beethoven - Theme from Symphony No 6 Sheet Music (Print Instantly) |
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| | Beethoven Symphony 6/Pines of Rome |
| | This is another in the Barenboim Beethoven symphony series, an amiable view of the Pastorale, well played and richly recorded (without the overmiking heard in Symphony No. 5). | | | See more comments on the REVIEW of symphonies 4 and 5. | | | This series is spread out over 5 DVDA disks when it easily could have been accommodated on four which would have made it a far more attractive to collectors. |
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| | Pathetique Symphony |
| | Having sketched the new symphony with a speed that amazed even himself, Tchaikovsky took another six months to create the finished product. | | | There will be much innovation of form in this symphony and incidentally, the finale will not be a noisy allegro but, on the contrary, a long drawn-out adagio. | | | The opening theme has a sobbing character, in no small part because nobody is actually playing it: rather, the first and second violins both play figures consisting of upward and downward leaps, and the theme emerges from whichever part has the highest note. |
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| | Funeral |
| | The Music played was Beethoven's 6th symphony (the pastoral), Al Stewart - The Year Of The Cat and Queen - Your my Best Friend. | | | Anyway, in Britain, the result was that any proper public debate about the possible merits of more radio listening choice was sabotaged by this perpetual claim that it was impossible anyway. | | | The government told the story that there were no frequencies available. |
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