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- ↑ "Music And Musicians: Judges in the Paderewski Prize Competition Announce Their Reward", St. Albans Daily Messenger (Vermont), November 1, 1901, pg. 5
- ↑ "W. C. Riegger Wins Paderewski Prize", Times-Picayune , August 6, 1922
- ↑ Thursday, "Paderewski Prize Awards, Boston Herald , October 31, 1901, pg. 12
- ↑ "The Paderewski Prize", New-York Tribune , December 3, 1905, Page 7
- ↑ "Mars ascending", by Charles Haubiel (manuscript) (1923); OCLC 52187186
- ↑ The Boston Composers Project: A Bibliography of Contemporary Music, Linda Solow Blotner (born 1947) (ed.), Boston Area Music Libraries, MIT Press (1983); OCLC 9576366
- ↑ Death Notice: "Friedrich R. Pfau", Die Musik 1905–1906, Vol. 17, No. 3, 1st quarter, pg. 199; OCLC 1696908
- ↑ "Sigismond Stojowski and His Views on Piano Study", by William Armstrong, Polish Music Journal, Winter 2002; ISSN 1521-6039
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