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- ↑ Polish Music Center Archived 2012-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 adrianthomasmusic.com [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ One source, IMSLP, says the conductor was Serge Koussevitzky, but this seems to be an error.
- 1 2 3 Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed, 1954, Vol. VI, p. 482, Paderewski, Ignacy (Jan)
- ↑ paderewskifest.com Archived 2012-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ thenews.pl, 29 June 2011
- 1 2 Music Web International
- ↑ Music Web International
- 1 2 Amazon
- ↑ IMSLP
