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- ↑ A history of baroque music p211 George J. Buelow – 2004 "Composed to replace the earlier hymnal by Calvisius, it contains 286 hymns (313 in the revised edition of 1645 by Schein's successor, Tobias Michael), most of them part of the Leipzig repertory of the St. Thomas and St. Nikolaus ..."
- ↑ The Leipzig Thomaner Chor Richard Petzoldt – 1962 – "Of the works of Tobias Michael not much has been preserved,"
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