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- ↑ Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture 1136787852 Smorodinskaya, - 2013- Page 556 "16 December 1932, Moscow Composer Shchedrin graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1955 and taught ... Zapechatlennyi angel (The Sealed Angel, 1988, from text by Nikolai Leskov) for mixed choir and reed pipe...
- 1 2 "Rodion Shchedrin's The Sealed Angel". Through the Night. 6 August 2018. BBC Radio 3 . Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- 1 2 3 Rickards, Guy (June 2009). "Shchedrin (The) Sealed Angel". Gramophone . Retrieved 7 August 2018.
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