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- 1 2 George Whitney Martin pg. 81
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- ↑ Preston p.152
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- ↑ Music Teachers National Association (1897). Max Maretzek. p. 561.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ↑ Brodsky Lawrence, pg. 3
- ↑ W. S. B. Mathews pg. 612-613
- ↑ Brodsky Lawrence pg. 314
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- ↑ Newman pg. 75
- ↑ Wilson, pg. 118-125
- ↑ Preston pg. 195- 208
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- ↑ George Whitney Martin pg. 350
- ↑ Oscar Thompson and Nicolas Slonimsky pg. 6
- ↑ "The Philadelphia Academy of Music". The New York Times . March 26, 1857.
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- ↑ Bacon pg. 156
- ↑ Brodsky Lawrence pg. 695
- ↑ George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood (1956). Opera in 19th Century America. p. 343.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ↑ Newman pg. 35
- ↑ John H. Baron (2013). Concert Life in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: A Comprehensive Reference. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 9780807150849.