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- ↑ Dietz, Berlin, 1948. F. Rausch, translator[ title missing ]
- ↑ Nono used the verses 7, 8, 4, 16, 19
- ↑ Irvine, John (1999). "Luigi Nono's Canti di vita e d'amore: new phases of development 1960–62" (PDF). Contemporary Music Review. 18 (2): 87–109. doi:10.1080/07494469900640201 . Retrieved 2007-09-30.
- ↑ Matthew Boyden, Nick Kimberley, Joe Staines: The Rough Guide to Opera, Rough Guides, 3rd edition, 2002, p. 550
- 1 2 Hodges, Nicolas, "Record Review" of Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960 and Prometeo (July 1996). Tempo (New Ser.), 197: pp. 50–51.
- 1 2 Fitch, Fabrice, "Reviews: Luigi Nono" (CD reviews) (1995). The Musical Times , 136 (1829): p. 366.
- ↑ According to the booklet of the CD Intolleranza, Teldec 4509-97304-2, p. 10, quoted by Raymond Fearn: Italian Opera Since 1945, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998, p. 79–80
- ↑ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Intolleranza 1960, 13 April 1961" . L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- ↑ Ripellinos poem "Vivere e stare svegli" (Live and be vigilant), in A. M. R., Non un giorno ma non adesso, Grafica, Rome, 1960. See also: Luigi Nono, "Einige genauere Hinweise zu Intolleranza 1960, pp. 69–81, in Stenzl, Jürg, ed. (1975). Luigi Nono : Texte, Studien zu seiner Musik. Zürich, Freiburg: Atlantis. p. 70.
- ↑ Alfred Andersch translated in the German edition of score, but not in his draft, emigrante as "refugee". Stenzl 1975 , p. 69, Note 1
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