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- ↑ Program of the Ann Arbor May Festival, issues 27–30, p. 45, University of Michigan. University Musical Society (1920): "Fifth Concert Saturday Afternoon May 19, Prelude to Loreley, Op. 16, Bruch – ... Some years later his [Max Bruch's] attention was drawn to the libretto of an opera – Loreley – which Emanuel Geibel (1815–1884) had originally written for Mendelssohn. ... Bruch read the poem in 1861, and immediately set out for Munich to induce the author to permit him to make a setting for the text."
- ↑ Mews, Siegfried, James N. Hardin (1993) Nineteenth Century German writers: 1841–1900, p. 106: "Geibel refused to allow Die Loreley to be published until 1860; in 1861 he assented to a composition by Max Bruch."
- ↑ IMSLP, probably taking its information from the notes to the cpo recording of the work.
- ↑ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 677.
