Compositions with William Shakespeare as librettist

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Creators Key Opus Composed Instrumentation Period/style Type Listen Code
La tempête Arthur Honegger, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
H.48 1923 voices and orchestra Early 20th century Incidental music
The Tempest (Stormen) Jean Sibelius, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.109 1925 voices, mixed chorus and orchestra Early 20th century Incidental music, Suites
Twelfth Night, Op. 60 (Trettondagsafton) Jean Sibelius, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.60 1909 voice and piano
voice and guitar
Early 20th century Songs
Orpheus with His Lute (Song) Martin Grayson, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2007 voice and lute
voice and guitar
Modern Songs
The Tempest (Буря) Anton Arensky, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.75 voices, mixed chorus and orchestra Romantic Incidental music
Chansons de Shakespeare Ernest Chausson, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.28 1890 voice and piano
female chorus and piano
Romantic Chansons
Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind Kelly Crandell, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
soprano, alto, tenor and bass Modern Songs
La tempête (Musique de scène pour le drame de Shakespeare) Ernest Chausson, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.18 1888 voices and orchestra Romantic Incidental music
Macbeth (Taffelmusik af Sørgespillet Macbeth) Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voices, mixed chorus and orchestra Romantic Incidental music
The Ariels Songs in the Play call´d The Tempest John Banister, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and lute
voice and viol
voice and continuo
Baroque Songs
Orpheus with His Lute, a Song (The Words by Shakespear) Maurice Greene, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
B flat major voice and continuo Baroque Songs
Musik zu W. Shakespeares "Was ihr wollt" (Music for Shakespeare's 'Twelfth night or what you will') Engelbert Humperdinck, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
orchestra Early 20th century Incidental music
The Tempest Bart Dunn, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2007 orchestra Modern Incidental music
3 Shakespeare Choruses Amy Marcy Beach, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.39 1897 female chorus Romantic Sacred choruses
Sea Change Peter Dyson, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
1982 2 voices, mixed chorus and orchestra Modern Songs
2 Songs from Shakespeare, Op. 9 Benjamin Dale, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.9 voice, viola and piano Early 20th century Songs
As You Like It Thomas Augustine Arne, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and cittern
voice, flute and continuo
Baroque Songs
Take O Take Those Lips Away (Glee) Robert Lucas Pearsall, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
A major Op.6 2 sopranos, 2 tenors and bass Romantic Glees
Macbeth, Op. 13 Wilhelm Heinefetter, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Overture: C minor Op.13 1861 voices, mixed chorus and orchestra Romantic Incidental music
Komm herbei, Tod Peter Cornelius, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
1847 2 sopranos and piano
soprano and alto
soprano, bass and piano
Romantic Songs
A Shakespeare Winter, Op. 38 Ernest John Robertson, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.38 1999 mixed chorus and piano Modern Secular choruses
5 Shakespeare Songs (Shakespeare Songs, Second Set) Roger Quilter, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.23 voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
mixed chorus and piano Romantic Secular choruses
Midsummer Night's Dream (You spotted snakes with double tongue) George Alexander Macfarren, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
C major mixed chorus Romantic Secular choruses
When Icicles Hang by the Wall Arthur Foote, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
D minor voice and piano Romantic Songs
When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain? Samuel Webbe, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
C minor 3 basses Classical Glees
Hark! Hark! The Lark Harvey Worthington Loomis, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
F major voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
Pretty Ring Time Peter Dyson, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
1981 mixed chorus, 6 percussions and piano Modern Secular choruses
The Lovely April Francesco Milita, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
mixed chorus Modern Secular choruses
The Witches (The Witches. Glee for 3 Voices ; When shall we three meet again?
The Witches' Glee)
Matthew Peter King, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
C major 3 voices Classical Glees
Hark, Hark, the Lark Benjamin Cooke, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
B flat major soprano, alto, tenor and bass
soprano, 2 tenors and bass
4 voices and harpsichord
4 voices, violin and harpsichord
voice and harpsichord
voice, violin and harpsichord
voice and harpsichord 4 hands
Classical Glees
Take, O take those lips away Peter Warlock, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
F sharp minor 1918 voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
Mockery Peter Warlock, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
1927 voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
The Waves Frederic Rzewski, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
1988 narrator Modern Pieces
Fortune Frederic Rzewski, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2005 4 violas Modern Pieces
The Willow Song Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
G minor 1912 voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
Serenade to Music Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
D major 1938 4 sopranos, 4 altos, 4 tenors, 4 basses and orchestra Early 20th century Serenades
From Fairest Creatures Michel Rondeau, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2008 soprano and piano Modern Songs
Look in the Glass Michel Rondeau, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2008 soprano, recorder and piano Modern Songs
Unthrifty Lovliness Michel Rondeau, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2008 soprano, 2 recorders and harpsichord Modern Songs
When Forty Winters Michel Rondeau, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2008 soprano, recorder and harpsichord Modern Pieces
The Music to Shakespeare's Hamlet George Henschel, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.50 mixed chorus and orchestra Romantic Incidental music
Sigh No More, Ladies (Trio) Arthur Foote, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
A minor 2 sopranos and alto Romantic Trios
Take, oh! take those Lips away (A favorite Canzonet) William Jackson, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
E flat major Op.9 No.7 2 voices and continuo Classical Canzonets
Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thomas Augustine Arne, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and continuo Classical Songs
3 Songs Frederick Ayres, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.3 voice and piano Romantic Songs
It was a lover and his lass, Op. 19 Henry Clough-Leighter, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
G major voice and piano Romantic Songs
The First Booke of Ayres ({{TPtr}} :The first booke of ayres. Or Little short songs, to sing and play to the lute, with the base viole Newly published by Thomas Morley Bachiler of Musicke, and one of the gent. of her Maiesties Royall Chappel. ) Thomas Morley, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
RISM A/I: M 3711 voice, lute and viol Renaissance Airs, Songs
The Tempest Arthur Sullivan, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.1? 1861 3 voices, mixed chorus and orchestra Romantic Incidental music
Three Shakespeare Songs (Shakespeare Songs, first set) Roger Quilter, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.6 voice and piano Romantic Songs
Full Fathom Five John Ireland, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
O Mistress Mine Mark Andrews, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
C major mixed chorus and piano Early 20th century Secular choruses
All the World's a Stage Jake Muffett, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2012 soprano, alto, tenor and bass Modern Stage works
Songs from 'As You Like It' Robert G. Patterson, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
GRM-01027 1979 tenor, flute, horn and piano Modern Songs
5 Shakespeare Songs Bryceson Treharne, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
Henry VIII de Shakespeare Charles Bordes, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
E major 1895 soprano, alto, tenor and bass Romantic Madrigals
Songs Peter Warlock, composer
George Peele, librettist
Thomas Ford, librettist
William Shakespeare, librettist
Thomas Dekker, librettist
voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
Six Shakespeare Songs Geoffrey Turton Shaw, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
mixed chorus and piano
female chorus and piano
male chorus and piano
Romantic Songs
I Know a Bank Martin Shaw, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
G major voice and piano Romantic Songs
Let Me the Canakin Clink (Four-Part Song) John Blackwood McEwen, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
C major mixed chorus Early 20th century Songs
How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps (A Four-Part Song) D. Emlyn Evans, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
E flat major mixed chorus Romantic Songs
Who Is Sylvia (Four-Part Song) Edward German, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
G major mixed chorus Romantic Songs
The Passionate Pilgrim John Mucci, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2004 soprano and double bass Modern Songs
The Cloud Cap't Towers (Glee for Six Voices) Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
1795 2 altos, 2 tenors and 2 basses Classical Glees
What Shall He Have that Killed the Deer (Glee (A.T.T.B.) with Chorus ad lib.) Henry Rowley Bishop, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
alto, 2 tenors, bass and piano Romantic Glees
Songs from Shakespeare (The earliest known settings) Frederick Bridge, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and piano Renaissance Songs
As You Like It Henry Rowley Bishop, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voices, mixed chorus and orchestra Romantic Operas
The Comedy of Errors Henry Rowley Bishop, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voices, male chorus and orchestra Romantic Operas
Fancy Francis Poulenc, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
G major FP 174 1959 voice and piano Modern Songs, Fancies
Ye Spotted Snakes Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
A major soprano, alto, tenor and bass Classical Glees
Shakespeare's Dramatic Songs (Shakspeare's Dramatic Songs, Consisting of all the Songs, Duets, Trios and Chorusses, in Character, as Introduced by him in his Various Dramas; the Music, partly New & partly Selected with New Symphonies and Accompaniments for the Piano Forte from the works of Purcell, Fielding, Drs. Boyce, Nares, Arne, Cooke, Messrs. J. Smith, I. S. Smith, T. Linley Junr. and R. I. S. Stevens, to which are prefixed a general Introduction of the Subject and Explanatory Remarks on Each Play, by Wm. Linley Esqr.) William Linley, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and piano
2 voices and piano
voice, mixed chorus and piano
Classical Songs, Duets, Secular choruses, Incidental music, Music history
from "Macbeth" Gary Bachlund, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2010 voice and piano Modern Songs
Five Sonnets Gary Bachlund, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2000 voice and piano Modern Songs
Three Shakespeare Songs Gerard Barton, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and piano Romantic Songs
Lieder des Narren (Lieder des Narren aus Shakespeare's 'Was ihr wollt') Karl Nowotny, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and piano Early 20th century Lieder
Shakespeares Sonett Nr.66 Hanns Eisler, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
1939 voice and piano Modern Lieder
Horatios Monologue Hanns Eisler, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
1942 voice and piano Modern Songs
A Midsummer Night's Dream Cecil Sharp, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voices, mixed chorus and orchestra Early 20th century Incidental music, Folksongs
Shakespeare Songs Arthur Sullivan, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and piano Romantic Songs
Sonnet XVIII William Arthur Aikin, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
It Was a Lover and His Lass (It Was a Lover) Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
E minor 2 voices and piano Early 20th century Songs
A Collection of the Vocal Music in Shakespeare's Plays (A Collection of the Vocal Music in Shakespear's Plays, including the whole of the Songs, Duetts, Glees, Choruses, &c. Engraved from original MS & early printed Copies chiefly from the Collection of W. Kitchiner, Esqr. M.D. Revised & Arranged with an Accompaniment for the Piano Forte by Mr Addison) Various, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and piano
voices and piano
voices
mixed chorus
Baroque Songs, Duets, Glees, Secular choruses
Komm herbei, komm herbei, Tod! Carl Loewe, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and piano Romantic Songs
Under the Greenwood Tree Shuwen Zhang, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
D major/E major 2015 voice and orchestra Modern Songs
Farewell to the Little Good Tamás Beischer-Matyó, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2011 mixed chorus Modern Secular choruses
Madrigals of Passion and Wisdom (A szenvedély és bölcsesség madrigáljai) Tamás Beischer-Matyó, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2011 soprano and mixed chorus Modern Madrigals
Sonnet LXV Malcolm Hill, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
mj349 2005 soprano and piano Modern Songs
Ophelia's Story Malcolm Hill, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
mj269 2005 soprano and piano Modern Songs
Take, O Take Those Lips Away Claude Ernest Cover, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
F major 4 voices
mixed chorus
Romantic Secular choruses
Shakespeare's Sonnet 104 Carlotta Ferrari, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
mixed chorus Modern Secular choruses
O Gentle Sleep Malcolm Hill, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
mj352 2016 3 sopranos and female chorus Modern Secular choruses
Let Us Garlands Bring Gerald Finzi, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.18 voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
The Two Gentlemen of Verona Henry Rowley Bishop, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voices and orchestra Classical Incidental music
A Midsummer Night's Dream Henry Rowley Bishop, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voices and orchestra Classical Incidental music, Pasticcios
Der Kaufmann von Venedig Engelbert Humperdinck, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voices, mixed chorus and orchestra Romantic Incidental music
Sonnet 90 (Сонет 90) Alexander Strugov, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2016 voice and piano Modern Songs
Shakespear's Duel and Loadstars (Duel and Lodestars) William Shield, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and piano
3 voices
Romantic Songs
It Was a Lover and His Lass (Duet) Richard Henry Walthew, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2 voices and piano Romantic Duets
Musik zu Shakespeare's 'Der Sturm', Op. 65 Felix Weingartner, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.65 1918 voices, mixed chorus and orchestra Early 20th century Incidental music
She never told her love Joseph Haydn, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
A flat major Hob.XXVIa:34n1135 XXVIa:34 1794 voice and piano Classical Canzonettas
Richmond's Prayer (Richmond's Prayer from 'Richard the Third') Max Heinrich, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
D flat major voice and piano Romantic Songs
4 Lieder nach Shakespeare Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.31 1937 voice and piano Romantic Lieder
Orpheus (A masque) Ernest John Robertson, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.64 2015 soprano, baritone, male chorus and orchestra Modern Masques
Music for The Tempest (Incidental music for Shakespeare's "The Tempest") Thomas Linley Jr., composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
1776 voice, mixed chorus and orchestra Classical Incidental music
Sleep Thou Elaine Fine, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2018 soprano and flute Modern Songs
It Was a Lover and His Lass Thomas Morley, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
G major 1600 soprano, lute and viol Renaissance Songs
Song of the Pedlar Charles Lee Williams, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
soprano, alto, tenor, bass and piano
mixed chorus and piano
Romantic Songs
4 Old English Songs Eric Coates, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
Who is Silvia? George Ingraham, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
C minor 1883 voice and piano Classical Songs
An History of English Literature (Three pieces for a capella chorus) Marshall Tuttle, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Van Leeuven Shelly, librettist
2003 mixed chorus Modern Secular choruses
The Willow Song Charles Vincent, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
C minor voice and piano Romantic Songs
O Mistress Mine John Ebenezer West, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
G major 2 voices and piano
piano
Renaissance Songs
I Know a Bank Charles Edward Horn, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
E flat major 2 sopranos and piano
female chorus and piano
Classical Songs
Orpheus with his Lute John Liptrot Hatton, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
E flat major soprano, alto and piano Romantic Songs
Under the Greenwood Tree Arthur Henry Linton, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
D flat major piano Early 20th century Songs
To Dream Again Anthony Wilkes, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
1999 voice and piano Modern Songs
7 Shakespeare Songs George Alexander Macfarren, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
mixed chorus Romantic Songs
Lullaby Walford Davies, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
E major soprano, female chorus and piano Early 20th century Lullabies
Trip Away Charles Edward Horn, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
1823 soprano, mixed chorus and orchestra Classical Songs
O Happy Fair (The Lode-stars; The Load-stars; The Loadstars) William Shield, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
A major soprano, alto and bass
mixed chorus
Classical Glees
Sonettino No. 4 for Viola Solo (When in disgrace) Marshall Tuttle, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
D minor 2020 viola Romantic Pieces
Sonettino no.6 for Solo Viola (Waltzes) Marshall Tuttle, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2020 viola Early 20th century Pieces
Titania's Cradle Liza Lehmann, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and piano Romantic Songs
Come Away, Death Ernest John Moeran, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
R39 1925 voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
4 Shakespeare Songs Ernest John Moeran, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
R76 1940 voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
The Sweet o' the Year Ernest John Moeran, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
R61 1931 voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
Limes (CM 2017) Carmelo Mantione, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.15 2016 soprano, oboe, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, percussion, guitar, violin, cello and piano Modern Secular cantatas
3 Shakespeare Songs Amy Marcy Beach, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.37 voice and piano Romantic Songs
W młodości, ach! Czemu wiek ten zgasł? Jan Karol Gall, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
D minor voice and piano Romantic Songs
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Stephen Potter, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
B flat major 2014 voice and piano Modern Songs
Three Shakespeare Songs James Walker, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
1997 voice and oboe
voice and flute
Modern Songs
Sonnet 71 Prokhor Protasoff, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
2020 voice, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano Modern Songs
The Lover and his Lass Ernest John Moeran, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
E flat major soprano, alto and piano Early 20th century Songs
50 Shakespeare Songs (Fifty Shakspere Songs) Charles Vincent, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voice and piano Romantic Songs
Melologo Op. 30 Francesco Mencarini, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.30 2019 narrator, soprano and piano Modern Pieces
Should He Upbraid Henry Rowley Bishop, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
G major voice and piano Romantic Songs
Romeo and Juliet Thomas Augustine Arne, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voices and orchestra Baroque Incidental music
The Merchant of Venice Thomas Shaw, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
voices and orchestra Classical Incidental music
Irrungen (Oper in drei Akten nach Shakspeare's Komödie der Irrungen) Karl Adolf Lorenz, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.40 voices, mixed chorus and orchestra Romantic Operas
Prologue from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida James Walker, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
1998 voice and piano Modern Songs, Prologues
Tempest Songs for SATB a cappella James Walker, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
1985 mixed chorus Modern Songs
The Pedlar's Song Walford Davies, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
G major 1916 2 sopranos, alto and piano Early 20th century Songs
Orpheus With His Lute Edward German, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
F major Romantic
Julius Caesar Mark Alburger, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.329 2019 voices and orchestra Modern Operas
Macbeth Mark Alburger, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.328 2019 voices and orchestra Modern Operas
Fairy Glee (Fairy Glee from the Midsummer Night's Dream) John Percy, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
E flat major 4 voices Classical Glees
The Garden Scene from Romeo and Juliet (The Garden Scene from Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet, versified, set to music) John Percy, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
Op.2 voice, 2 violins and harpsichord
voice, 2 violins and piano
2 voices, 2 violins and piano
2 voices, 2 violins and harpsichord
Classical Songs, Duets
3 Songs from William Shakespeare, K081 Igor Stravinsky, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
K081 1953 Modern
O Mistress Mine! William Alexander Campbell Cruickshank, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
E flat major male chorus
alto, 2 tenors and bass
Romantic Songs
A Midsummer Night's Dream Alexander Mekaev, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
op.142 narrator, voices, mixed chorus and orchestra Modern Operas
Two Sonnets Richard McIntyre, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
A minor 1996 Modern
Jak może mojej muzie braknąć treści (Sonet W. Shakspeare'a) Stanisław Duniecki, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
G major voice and piano Romantic Songs
Cicha śmierci zejdź Jan Karol Gall, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
A flat major voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
Lied der Pagen Jan Karol Gall, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
G major Op.2 2 voices and piano Romantic Lieder
Under the Greenwood Tree Douglas Moore, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
F major voice and piano Modern Songs
No longer mourn for me (Madrigal) Arthur Somervell, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
B flat major soprano, alto, tenor and bass Romantic Madrigals
Shall I compare thee Dominik Giesen, composer
William Shakespeare, librettist
mixed chorus Modern Songs


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