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- 1 2 Biography at Jean Kluger website Archived 3 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Jean Kluger, International Certificate for Piano Artists Archived 7 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved 10 April 2016
