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- ↑ A review of the concert in Sydney Evening News, 3 June 1910
- ↑ An article in The Sydney Morning Herald , 21 April 1913
- ↑ Ludwig D'Hage's biography in the Australian Dictionary of Biography
- ↑ Lam, Y. C. (June 2006). Analytical study of Alfred Hill’s String Quartet no. 2 in G minor (Thesis, Master of Arts). University of Otago