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- ↑ The New Kobbé's Opera Book - Page 276 1997 "in spite of the Arts Council prize won by the composer at the 1951 Festival of Britain for Beatrice Cenci, it remained unstaged, apart from a couple of widely spaced concert performances of excerpts, until Goldschmidt was in his nineties."
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