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- History of the Baden-Baden Symphony Orchestra Archived 2019-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
- (in Portuguese) Mehlich, Ernst Archived 2015-07-10 at the Wayback Machine transcribed from Dicionário de Ruas, at Casa Stefan Zweig
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