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Notes
- ↑ Salvetti and Sità, La cultura dei musicisti italiani nel Novecento, p. 202
- ↑ Gelli, Dizionario dell'Opera 2008, p. 808
- ↑ Salzman and Desi, The New Music Theatre, p. 195
- ↑ Osmond-Smith in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. 3
- ↑ "Casa Ricordi catalogue".
- ↑ "Casa Ricordi catalogue".
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