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I've been looking to find the name of this melody forever, so the full track evades me as well. I have a rather too short but definitive sample of it, which can be found here:

http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/87416_ofwyj/20090824-041952.mp3]20090824-041952.mp3

Can you please let me know which this one is? It would be great if you bothered.
Looking forward to a reply

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Hello, Alexander,

I can tell you this much: it's Chopin. Which piece it is, I can't tell you off the top of my head, because his pieces were simply numbered, though they are classified by style. I'll give it some more thought, but at the moment, that's all I can tell you.

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I am no longer answering questions asking me to identify music. Most music is either on YouTube, which crashes my browser, or on another site that crashes my browser. I am available for other questions.

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I have been playing piano since I was 3, and I am now 66 years old. I took formal lessons for about 11 years, and took some piano and organ performance courses in college. I also sang in the Masterworks Chorale for a number of years, and can sing anything from baritone to first soprano. We performed twice a year, usually a major choral work, ranging from requiem masses to Carmina Burana. I also attended recorder society meetings once a month. We would read compositions and perform them together. I took several children to their music lessons and rehearsals and usually stayed and watched intensely. Our children studied violin, viola, flute, guitar, clarinet, French horn, trumpet, and trombone.

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I studied piano and organ in college, and took courses in music theory. I have also taken seminars in pre-Columbian folk music with Xochimoki, as well as played a short while in a gamelan, and a balalaika orchestra, where I played autoharp.

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