Prague Spring International Music Festival
Since 1952 , the festival has opened on 12 May — the anniversary of the death of Bedřich Smetana — with his cycle of symphonic poems "Má vlast" ( My Country ) , and it used to close ( until 2003 ) with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No . 9 . 
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