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- ↑ Peter Tschmuck, Creativity and Innovation in the Music Industry, 2012. p. 42: "A few more orchestral recordings by Columbia and Gramophone followed, but it was the first complete recording of Beethoven's “Fifth Symphony” by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Arthur Nikisch in 1913 that was epochal."
- ↑ Matthew Guerrieri - 2012 "Beethoven's Fifth had been a soundtrack for the recording industry's technological milestones—the 1910 Fifth by Friedrich Kark and the Odeon-Orchestcr had been the first complete symphony put on record, while RCA Victor had introduced the long-playing.."
- ↑ American Record Guide 1942- Volumes 9-10 - Page 229 "Szigeti attributed the first complete recording of the Beethoven Fifth to Nikisch. In our footnote we said that the score was cut in the performance, and added that the first complete recording of the symphony was made by Coates around 1920"
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