This is a list of piano composers.
Baroque period
- Domenico Alberti (1710–1740)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
- François Couperin (1668–1733)
- Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772)
- Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785)
- Lodovico Giustini (1685–1743)
- Christoph Graupner (1683–1760)
- George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
- Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697–1763)
- Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
- Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
- Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
- Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
Classical period
- Louis Adam (1758–1848)
- Bonifazio Asioli (1769–1832)
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
- Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)
- Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732–1795)
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784)
- Carlos Baguer (1768-1808)
- Franz Ignaz Beck (1734–1809)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
- Georg Benda (1722–1795)
- Ludwig Berger (1777–1839)
- João Domingos Bomtempo (1775–1842)
- Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801)
- Muzio Clementi (1752–1832)
- Philip Cogan (1750–1833)
- Johann Baptist Cramer (1771–1858)
- Franz Danzi (1763–1826)
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–1799)
- František Xaver Dušek (1731–1799)
- Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760–1812)
- Anton Eberl (1765–1807)
- Józef Elsner (1769–1854)
- Joseph Leopold Eybler (1765–1846)
- Emanuel Aloys Förster (1748–1823)
- Joseph Gelinek (1758–1825)
- Tommaso Giordani (1730–1806)
- Johann Wilhelm Hässler (1747–1822)
- Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
- Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812)
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837)
- Hyacinthe Jadin (1776–1800)
- Leopold Kozeluch (1747–1818)
- Joseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792)
- Franz Krommer (1759–1831)
- Nikolaus von Krufft (1779–1818)
- Joseph Küffner (1776–1856)
- Francesca Lebrun (1756–1791)
- Étienne Méhul (1763–1817)
- Leopold Mozart (1719–1787)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
- August Eberhard Müller (1767–1817)
- Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781)
- Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741–1801)
- Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748–1798)
- Sigismund von Neukomm (1778–1858)
- Giovanni Paisiello (1740–1816)
- Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831)
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814)
- Anton Reicha (1770–1836)
- Antonio Rosetti (1750–1792)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739–1796)
- Antonio Salieri (1750–1825)
- Johann Samuel Schroeter (1753–1788)
- Antonio Soler (1729–1783)
- Fernando Sor (1778–1839)
- Daniel Steibelt (1765–1823)
- Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (1750–1817)
- Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739–1813)
- Václav Jan Tomášek (1774–1850)
- Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750–1813)
- Samuel Wesley (1766–1837)
- Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774–1842)
- Johann Wilhelm Wilms (1772–1847)
- Joseph Wölfl (1773–1812)
- Paul Wranitzky (1756–1808)
Romantic period
- Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888)
- Anton Arensky (1861–1906)
- Tekla Bądarzewska (1829/1834 – 1861)
- Mily Balakirev (1837–1910)
- Friedrich Baumfelder (1836–1916)
- Amy Beach (1867–1944)
- Franz Bendel (1832–1874)
- William Sterndale Bennett (1816–1875)
- Peter Benoit (1834–1901)
- Wilhelm Berger (1861–1911)
- Henri Bertini (1798–1876)
- Felix Blumenfeld (1863–1931)
- Charles Samuel Bovy-Lysberg (1821–1873)
- Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
- Friedrich Burgmüller (1806–1874)
- Hans von Bülow (1830–1894)
- Ignacio Cervantes (1847–1905)
- Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894)
- Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944)
- Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
- Aloÿs Claussmann (1850–1926)
- Carl Czerny (1791–1857)
- Eugen d'Albert (1864–1932)
- Élie-Miriam Delaborde (1839–1913)
- Charles Delioux (1825–1915)
- Anton Diabelli (1781–1858)
- Theodor Döhler (1814–1856)
- Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)
- Alexander Dreyschock (1818–1869)
- Felix Dreyschock (1860–1906)
- Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
- Michele Esposito (1855–1929)
- Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
- Zdeněk Fibich (1850-1900)[1][2]
- John Field (1782–1837)
- Julian Fontana (1810–1869)
- Adolfo Fumagalli (1828–1856)
- Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857)
- Henri Gobbi (1842–1920)
- Benjamin Godard (1849–1895)
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869)
- Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
- Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847-1907)
- Cornelius Gurlitt (1820–1901)
- Adolphe Gutmann (1819–1882)
- Charles-Louis Hanon (1819–1900)
- Stephen Heller (1813–1888)
- Swan Hennessy (1866–1929)
- Adolf von Henselt (1814–1889)
- Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833)
- Henri Herz (1803–1888)
- Franz Hitz (1828–1891)
- Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885)
- Franz Hünten (1792–1878)
- Salomon Jadassohn (1831–1902)
- Alfred Jaëll (1832–1882)
- Marie Jaëll (1846-1925)
- Rafael Joseffy (1852–1915)
- Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785–1849)
- Jan Kalivoda (1801–1866)
- Joseph Christoph Kessler (1800–1872)
- Theodor Kirchner (1823–1903)
- Anton de Kontski (1817–1899)
- Wilhelm Kuhe (1823–1912)
- Friedrich Kuhlau (1786–1832)
- Theodor Kullak (1818–1882)
- Franz Lachner (1803–1890)
- Théodore Lack (1846–1921)
- Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
- Henry Litolff (1818–1891)
- Sergei Lyapunov (1859–1924)
- Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912)
- Edward MacDowell (1860–1908)
- George Alexander Macfarren (1813–1887)
- Désiré Magnus (1828–1884)
- Antoine François Marmontel (1816–1898)
- William Mason (1829–1908)
- Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847)
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
- Amédée Méreaux (1802–1874)
- Aleksander Michalowski (1851–1938)
- Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870)
- Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925)
- Franz Xaver Mozart (1791–1844)
- Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)
- Vítězslav Novák (1870–1949)
- Joseph O'Kelly (1828–1885)
- Arthur O'Leary (1834–1919)
- George Onslow (1784–1853)
- Paul Pabst (1854–1897)
- Jan Gerard Palm (1831–1906)
- Cipriani Potter (1792–1871)
- Émile Prudent (1817–1863)
- Alfred Quidant (1815–1893)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
- Joachim Raff (1822–1882)
- Max Reger (1873–1916)
- Carl Reinecke (1824–1910)
- Julius Reubke (1834–1858)
- Josef Rheinberger (1819-1901)[3][4]
- Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838)[5][6]
- Julius Rietz (1812–1877)
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
- Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894)
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
- Wassily Sapellnikoff (1867–1941)
- Xaver Scharwenka (1850–1924)
- Aloys Schmitt (1788–1866)
- Friedrich Schneider (1786–1853)
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
- Julius Schulhoff (1825–1898)
- Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
- Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
- Ludvig Schytte (1848–1909)
- Giovanni Sgambati (1841–1914)
- Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
- Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884)
- Sydney Smith (1839–1889)
- Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
- Camille-Marie Stamaty (1811–1870)
- Wilhelm Taubert (1811–1891)
- Karl Tausig (1841–1871)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
- Thomas Tellefsen (1823–1874)
- Sigismond Thalberg (1812–1871)
- Jan Václav Voříšek (1791–1825)
- Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
- Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
- Józef Wieniawski (1837–1912)
- Aleksander Zarzycki (1834–1895)
- Władysław Żeleński (1837–1921)
20th century
| Composer | Born | Died | Nationality | Notable piano works | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicanor Abelardo | 1893 | 1934 | Filipino | ||
| Theodor Adorno | 1903 | 1969 | German | ||
| Miguel del Aguila | 1957 | Uruguayan-American |
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| Roy Agnew | 1891 | 1944 | Australian | ||
| Isaac Albéniz | 1860 | 1909 | Spanish | Iberia | |
| Willem Andriessen | 1887 | 1964 | Dutch | ||
| Samuel Barber | 1910 | 1981 | American |
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| Béla Bartók | 1881 | 1945 | Hungarian | Folksong-influenced, Centric, Modal, Polymodal/Polytonal | |
| Arnold Bax | 1883 | 1953 | English |
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Romantic, Impressionist |
| Emile-Robert Blanchet | 1877 | 1943 | Swiss | ||
| Sergei Bortkiewicz | 1877 | 1952 | Ukrainian | ||
| York Bowen | 1884 | 1961 | English | Romantic | |
| Frank Bridge | 1879 | 1941 | English | Late-Romantic, hints of Second Viennese School | |
| Ferruccio Busoni | 1866 | 1924 | Italian |
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Mature works of indeterminate key; Late in career, neoclassical |
| Alfredo Casella | 1883 | 1947 | Italian | ||
| Cécile Chaminade | 1857 | 1944 | French | ||
| Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | 1875 | 1911 | Lithuanian |
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| Aaron Copland | 1900 | 1990 | American |
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| Claude Debussy | 1862 | 1918 | French | Impressionist | |
| Ernst von Dohnanyi | 1877 | 1960 | Hungarian |
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| Duke Ellington | 1899 | 1974 | American | Jazz | |
| Samuil Feinberg | 1890 | 1962 | Russian | ||
| Ossip Gabrilowitsch | 1878 | 1936 | Russian, American | ||
| George Gershwin | 1898 | 1937 | American |
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Jazz-influenced |
| Alberto Ginastera | 1916 | 1983 | Argentine | Earlier works often integrate Argentine folk themes; later works increasingly abstracted | |
| Alexander Glazunov | 1865 | 1936 | Russian | Romantic | |
| Leopold Godowsky | 1870 | 1938 | Polish, American |
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| Percy Grainger | 1882 | 1961 | Australian, English, American | ||
| Enrique Granados | 1867 | 1916 | Spanish | Distinctly Spanish | |
| Alexander Gretchaninov | 1864 | 1956 | Russian | ||
| Gabriel Grovlez | 1879 | 1944 | French | ||
| Vladimir Horowitz | 1903 | 1989 | Ukrainian, American | ||
| Charles Ives | 1874 | 1954 | American |
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| Scott Joplin | 1867 | 1917 | American | Ragtime | |
| Dmitri Kabalevsky | 1904 | 1987 | Russian, Soviet | ||
| Aram Khachaturian | 1903 | 1978 | Soviet, Armenian | ||
| Viktor Kosenko | 1896 | 1938 | Ukrainian | ||
| Joseph Lamb | 1887 | 1960 | American | Ragtime | |
| Constant Lambert | 1905 | 1951 | English |
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| Ernesto Lecuona | 1895 | 1963 | Cuban | ||
| André Mathieu | 1929 | 1968 | Canadian |
|
Romantic |
| Nikolai Medtner | 1880 | 1951 | Russian | ||
| Erkki Melartin | 1875 | 1937 | Finnish | ||
| Olivier Messiaen | 1908 | 1992 | French |
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| Federico Mompou | 1893 | 1987 | Catalan, Spanish | ||
| Thelonious Monk | 1917 | 1982 | American | Jazz | |
| Nikolai Myaskovsky | 1881 | 1950 | Russian, Soviet | ||
| Ernesto Nazareth | 1863 | 1934 | Brazilian | Eclectic influences; primarily dance music (tangos, waltzes, polkas, etc.), influenced by African and Argentine styles | |
| Walter Niemann | 1876 | 1953 | German | Impressionist and exotic influences | |
| Ignacy Jan Paderewski | 1860 | 1941 | Polish | ||
| Jacobo Palm | 1887 | 1982 | Curaçao-born | ||
| John Palm | 1885 | 1925 | Curaçao-born | ||
| Rudolph Palm | 1880 | 1950 | Curaçao-born | ||
| Selim Palmgren | 1878 | 1951 | Finnish | ||
| Isidor Philipp | 1863 | 1958 | French, Hungarian | ||
| Francis Poulenc | 1899 | 1963 | French | ||
| Florence Price | 1887 | 1953 | African American | ||
| Sergei Prokofiev | 1891 | 1953 | Russian |
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| Sergei Rachmaninoff | 1873 | 1943 | Russian | Romantic | |
| Maurice Ravel | 1875 | 1937 | French |
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Impressionist; sometimes jazz-influenced |
| Vladimir Rebikov | 1866 | 1920 | Russian | Impressionist, Romantic | |
| Hugo Reinhold | 1857 | 1935 | Austrian | Romantic | |
| Emmanuel Rhené-Baton | 1879 | 1940 | French | ||
| Jean Roger-Ducasse | 1873 | 1954 | French | ||
| Julius Röntgen | 1855 | 1932 | Dutch | ||
| Erik Satie | 1866 | 1925 | French | Impressionist; Minimalist (precursor) | |
| Ahmed Adnan Saygun | 1907 | 1991 | Turkish | Neoclassical, traditional Turkish folksong influence | |
| Florent Schmitt | 1870 | 1958 | French | Impressionist, Late-Romantic | |
| Arnold Schoenberg | 1874 | 1951 | Austrian, American |
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Serial (mature/late career), Late-Romantic (early career) |
| James Scott | 1885 | 1938 | American, African-American | Ragtime | |
| Alexander Scriabin | 1872 | 1915 | Russian |
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Late-Romantic (early); Atonal, Mystical (mature) |
| Verdina Shlonsky | 1905 | 1990 | Israeli |
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Polystylism |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | 1906 | 1975 | Russian, Soviet |
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Post-Romantic; neoclassical; elements of grotesque |
| Jean Sibelius | 1865 | 1957 | Finnish |
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Late-Romantic; post-Romantic |
| Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji | 1892 | 1988 | English | Neoclassical, neoromantic, postimpressionistic | |
| Enrique Soro | 1884 | 1954 | Chilean |
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Late-Romantic; post-Romantic |
| Alexei Stanchinsky | 1888 | 1914 | Russian | Post-Romantic, modal | |
| Wilhelm Stenhammar | 1871 | 1927 | Swedish | ||
| Richard Strauss | 1864 | 1949 | German | ||
| Igor Stravinsky | 1882 | 1971 | Russian, French, American | Post-Romantic (early); Neoclassical (middle); Serial (late career) | |
| Soulima Stravinsky | 1910 | 1994 | Swiss, American | Igor Stravinsky son | |
| Harald Sæverud | 1897 | 1992 | Norwegian |
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Late-Romantic; post-Romantic; neo-classical |
| Tōru Takemitsu | 1930 | 1996 | Japanese | Eclectic, with influences ranging from jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures, and traditional Japanese music; strongly influenced by Debussy and Messiaen | |
| Eduard Tubin | 1905 | 1982 | Estonian | ||
| Joaquin Turina | 1882 | 1949 | Spanish | ||
| Galina Ustvolskaya | 1919 | 2006 | Russian | Eclectic | |
| David Vaughan Thomas | 1873 | 1934 | Welsh | Nationalist | |
| Heitor Villa-Lobos | 1887 | 1959 | Brazilian |
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| Ángel Villoldo | 1861 | 1919 | Argentine | Tango | |
| Pancho Vladigerov | 1899 | 1978 | Bulgarian | ||
| Fats Waller | 1904 | 1943 | American | Jazz | |
| Henry Cowell | 1897 | 1965 | American | Avant-garde, tone cluster | |
Contemporary
- Philip Aaberg (born 1949)
- Thomas Adès (born 1971)
- Vladimir Anisimoff (born 1950)
- Lera Auerbach (born 1973)
- Nicolas Bacri (born 1961)
- Rich Batsford (born 1969)
- Giorgio Battistelli (born 1953)
- Jason Charles Beck (born 1972)
- Luciano Berio (1925–2003)
- Bart Berman (born 1938)
- Dave Brubeck (1920–2012)
- Dimitrije Bužarovski (born 1952)
- Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981)
- Roberto Carnevale (born 1966)
- Unsuk Chin (born 1961)
- Artur Cimirro (born 1982)
- Aldo Clementi (1925–2011)
- Julian Cochran (born 1974)
- Chick Corea (1941–2021)
- George Crumb (1929–2022)
- Norman Dello Joio (1913–2008)
- Alma Deutscher (b. 2005)
- Franco Donatoni (1927–2000)
- James Douglas (1932–2022)
- Tan Dun (born 1957)
- George Duke (1946–2013)
- Julius Eastman (1940–1990)
- Ludovico Einaudi (born 1955)
- Tanya Ekanayaka (born 1977)
- Roger Evernden (born 1954)
- Mohammed Fairouz (born 1985)
- Morton Feldman (1926–1987)
- Lorenzo Ferrero (born 1951)
- Graham Fitkin (born 1963)
- Carlo Forlivesi (born 1971)
- Nils Frahm (born 1982)
- Ola Gjeilo (born 1978)
- Philip Glass (born 1937)
- Chilly Gonzales (born 1972)
- Henryk Górecki (1933–2010)
- Robert Greenberg (born 1954)
- Christian Grøvlen (born 1990)
- Marc-André Hamelin (born 1961)
- Herbie Hancock (born 1940)
- Ichiko Hashimoto (born 1952)
- Kenneth Hesketh (born 1968)
- Alistair Hinton (born 1950)
- Joe Hisaishi (born 1950)
- Christopher Hobbs (born 1950)
- Stephen Hough (born 1961)
- Abdullah Ibrahim (born 1934)
- Keith Jarrett (born 1945)
- Aivars Kalējs (born 1951)
- Shigeru Kan-no (born 1959)
- Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020)
- Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)
- Pierre Kolp (born 1969)
- Martin Kutnowski (born 1968)
- György Ligeti (1923–2006)
- Ji Liu (born 1990)
- Frederik Magle (born 1977)
- Klaus Mertens (born 1973)
- Fred Momotenko (born 1970)
- Conlon Nancarrow (1912–1997)
- David Nevue (born 1965)
- Luka Okros (born 1991)
- Yukie Nishimura (born 1967)
- Christopher Norton (born 1953)
- Michael Nyman (born 1944)
- Chris Opperman (born 1978)
- Ozymandias (born 1971)
- Michael Parsons (born 1938)
- David Pentecost (born 1940)
- Wolfgang Plagge (born 1960)
- Tomi Räisänen (born 1976)
- Jan Randall (born 1952)
- Anirudh Ravichander (born 1990)
- Dino Residbegovic (born 1975)
- Max Richter (born 1966)
- Diana Ringo (born 1992)
- Arturo Rodas (born 1954)
- Alexander Rosenblatt (born 1956)
- Lee Ru-ma a.k.a. Yiruma (born 1978)
- Frederic Rzewski (1938–2021)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952-2023)
- Fazıl Say (born 1970)
- Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988)
- Avi Schönfeld (born 1947)
- Jon Schmidt (born 1966)
- Salvatore Sciarrino (born 1947)
- Peter Seabourne (born 1960)
- Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin (born 1932)
- Yoko Shimomura (born 1967)
- Gregory Short (1938–1999)
- Hugh Shrapnel (born 1947)
- Arlene Sierra (born 1970)
- Howard Skempton (born 1947)
- Dave Smith (born 1949)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)
- William Susman (born 1960)
- Yuji Takahashi (born 1938)
- Karen Tanaka (born 1961)
- Jennifer Thomas (born 1977)
- Robert Scott Thompson (born 1959)
- Yann Tiersen (born 1970)
- Vladimir Titov (born 1984)
- Julia Tsenova (1948–2010)
- Pēteris Vasks (born 1946)
- Carl Verbraeken (born 1950)
- Carl Vine (born 1954)
- Ezequiel Viñao (born 1960)
- John White (born 1936)
- George Winston (1949–2023)
- Yehuda Yannay (born 1937)
- Yanni (born 1954)
- Joji Yuasa (born 1929)
- Yitzhak Yedid (born 1971)
- Isang Yun (1917–1995)
- Yoshiki (born 1965)
- Edson Zampronha (born 1963)
- Joe Zawinul (1932–2007)
- Ralph Zurmühle (born?)
References
- ↑ "Radio Swiss Classic - Music database - Musician".
- ↑ "Zdeněk Fibich Biography, Works, Videos, Facts, and more".
- ↑ "Joseph Rheinberger | German composer | Britannica".
- ↑ "Classical Net - Composers - Rheinberger".
- ↑ "Ferdinand Ries Society | Biography | Bonn".
- ↑ "Ferdinand Ries Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
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