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- ↑ "Biographical cuttings on Geoffrey Madge, former composer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals". National Library of Australia . Retrieved 24 February 2010.
- ↑ "Performers - Geoffrey Douglas Madge (piano)". The Sorabji Archive. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
- ↑ "Sorabji Resource Site: Durations of Recorded Performances of Opus clavicembalisticum".
- ↑ Whitehouse, Richard (November 2001). "A welcome complete vercion [sic] of Musik für Klavier with two substantial couplings". Gramophone. Association Internationale Feinberg - Skalkottas (AIFS). Retrieved 24 February 2010.
