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2. Ora Frishberg Saloman, Beethoven’s Symphonies and J. S. Dwight: The Birth of American Music Criticism (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995), p. 21.
3. John Sullivan Dwight, “The History of Music in Boston” in Justin Windsor (ed.), The Memorial History of Boston Including Suffolk County, 1630–1880 (Boston: Ticknor & Co., 1881), p. 416.
4. Joseph Horowitz, Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall (New York: Norton, 2005), p. 29.
5. Louis Charles Elson, The History of American Music (New York: Macmillan, 1904), p. 57.