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- ↑ Hughes, Rupert (1939). Music Lovers' Encyclopedia. New York: Doubleday, Doran, and Company, Inc. p. 41.
- ↑ The Pall Mall Budget: Being a Weekly Collection of Articles Printed in the Pall Mall Gazette from Day to Day, with a Summary of News. 1876.
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