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- Footnotes
- 1 2 Oelmann 2002 , p. vii
- ↑ Horton 1976 , p. 215
- ↑ Grimley 2006 , p. 6
- ↑ Strasser 2007 , p. 103
- ↑ Dahl & Chillingham 1999
- ↑ Grinde n.d.
- ↑ Horton 1976 , p. 56
- ↑ See Hofmeisters Monatsbericht for a notice of the 1879 publication/(April 1879) receipt (by HMB) of the score (Part.) and parts (St[immen]).
- ↑ Anderson 1994
- ↑ Anderson & Årdal 2012
- ↑ Strasser 2007 , pp. 103–105
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