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It begins with a legato phrase, in three members of two bars each, divided between the Flutes, Oboes, and Clarinets, and continues with bolder phrases, also distributed between the various members of the Wind band (not altogether unlike the second subject in the first Allegro of the Eroica), while to the latter portion the Strings maintain an interesting accompaniment in semiquaver arpeggios. An