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The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs is a song for voice and closed piano by John Cage. It was composed in late 1942 and quickly became a minor classic in Cage’s oeuvre. The text was a reworked version of a passage from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

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