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- ↑ Fifteen sonatas for scordatura violin and continuo. August 19, 1963. OCLC 3696813 – via Open WorldCat.
- ↑ 8 sonatas for solo violin (1681). August 19, 1964. OCLC 5583956 – via Open WorldCat.
- ↑ "Listing" (PDF). www.americanmusicpreservation.com. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
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