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- ↑ Jean-Pierre Thiollet, 88 notes pour piano solo, "Solo nec plus ultra", Neva Editions, 2015, p.52. ISBN 978 2 3505 5192 0.
- ↑ Tony Fell, ‘Warren, Eleanor Catherine Rutherford (1919–2005)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2009; online edn, Jan 2011 accessed 23 Nov 2015
- ↑ James MacMillan Composer's Notes
- ↑ "Peter Frankl". iClassical-academy.com. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
