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Faust Overture

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The Faust Overture is a concert overture composed by German composer Richard Wagner. Wagner originally composed it from 1839-1840, intending it to be the first movement of a Faust Symphony based on the play Faust by German playwrite Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.