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1487:War Requiem
1241:(1932–1935)
1152:(1954) and
1131:5 Canticles
1058:War Requiem
941:Concertante
875:Sinfonietta
833:Film/Ballet
699:Paul Bunyan
576:Other works
497:Radio Times
161:Peter Burra
1678:Categories
868:Orchestral
849:Night Mail
739:Billy Budd
304:References
172:Alban Berg
147:Background
99:1938-06-27
1104:(1922–26)
906:Mont Juic
607:Mont Juic
499:magazine.
409:. p. 362.
359:. p. 112.
341:. p. 158.
298:Mont Juic
292:Mozartean
253:Catalonia
217:Movements
202:Mont Juic
157:Barcelona
114:Mont Juic
22:Mont Juic
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1146:(1952),
1042:Nocturne
747:Gloriana
633:Category
385:Archived
191:Montjuïc
137:Montjuïc
87:Premiere
72:Composed
54:Montjuïc
1642:Portals
1126:(1945)+
1082:Phaedra
288:Michael
257:Sardana
195:Catalan
97: (
77: (
1498:Legacy
1471:(1953)
1463:(1941)
1444:(1975)
1424:(1961)
1394:(1945)
1388:(1941)
1376:(1931)
1359:(1961)
1351:(1974)
1343:(1968)
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1327:(1962)
1319:(1959)
1313:(1955)
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1297:(1943)
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1273:(1942)
1265:(1938)
1257:(1934)
1249:(1933)
1230:Choral
1222:(1975)
1214:(1969)
1206:(1965)
1198:(1965)
1190:(1958)
1182:(1957)
1174:(1954)
1166:(1947)
1158:(1971)
1120:(1945)
1112:(1940)
1085:(1975)
1077:(1969)
1069:(1963)
1061:(1961)
1053:(1959)
1045:(1958)
1037:(1949)
1029:(1948)
1021:(1943)
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978:(1963)
964:(1939)
933:(1946)
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844:(1931)
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742:(1951)
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591:(1958)
585:(1954)
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560:(1954)
552:(1951)
549:Nelson
541:Operas
275:under
1668:Music
1093:Vocal
66:Suite
62:Genre
565:Ruth
131:and
92:Date
79:1937
75:1937
269:BBC
174:'s
141:Op.
28:by
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