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References
- Notes
- ↑ Loft 1973 , p. 302
- ↑ Zaslaw & Cowdery 1990 , p. 298
- Sources
- Loft, Abram (1973). Violin and Keyboard: The Duo Repertoire: Volume I: From the Seventeenth Century to Mozart. Portland: Amadeus Press. ISBN 0-931340-36-5.
- Zaslaw, Neal; Cowdery, William, eds. (1990). The Compleat Mozart: a Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0393028860.
