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- ↑ "Symphonie de Piano, Op.27 (Kullak, Theodor) - IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download". imslp.org.
- ↑ "Alkan: Symphony for solo piano". Hyperion Records.
- ↑ Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji to Philip Heseltine, 19 June 1922, quoted in Sorabji: A Critical Celebration, ed. Paul Rapoport, Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1992, p. 245.
- 1 2 "Sorabji Resource Site: Titles of Works Grouped by Categories".
- ↑ "The Sorabji Archive — Articles — Sorabji's Orchard: The Path to Opus Clavicembalisticum and Beyond (1/3)". www.sorabji-archive.co.uk.
- 1 2 Jonathan Powell, liner notes for Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Concerto per suonare da me solo, Jonathan Powell, (Altarus Records, AIR-CD-9081, 2006), p. 8.
- ↑ "Jamesarts". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
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