Acknowledgments

Special thanks are due to Edward Ho of Kingston Polytechnic for his help in getting this project started and his continued interest and assistance throughout, and to Roger Beeson for his constant aid and encouragement and detailed oversight of the whole enterprise. Thanks are also due to Mike Alexander of the Open University for his suggestion and help, which led to the project’s being undertaken.

I am grateful to David Clark of the Oxford Public Library and to Melva Peterson of the Music Library, The City University of New York, for making extensive searches of library holdings in Britain and the U.S.A. in the early days of the project. Thanks are due to Richard Taruskin of the University of California and to Dmitry Feofanov of the University of Kentucky for kindly supplying copies of scores from their personal collections. I should also like to thank the staff of the following libraries for their interest in replying to my letters and for supplying copies of scores from their holdings: The B.B.C. Music Library; The Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; The British Library; The Music Library of The State University of New York at Buffalo; The Music Library, Jordan College of Fine Arts, Butler University; The Gorno Memorial Music Library, University of Cincinnati; The University Libraries, Cleveland State University; The University Libraries, University of Colorado Boulder; Martin Luther King Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.; The Library of Congress; The Albert S. Cook Library, Towson State University; The Robert Manning Strozier Library, Florida State University; The Music Library, Indiana University; The Lenin Library; The New York Public Library; The Music Library, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Johns Hopkins University; The Free Library of Philadelphia; The Library of Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne. Thanks also to Alvin H. Johnson, executive director of the American Musicological Society, for introductions to people who were able to assist with the locating of scores.

Valuable help, for which I am grateful, was given by the following: Mrs. Thomas C. Graham, New York, a friend of Arthur Lourié, who provided information about the composer and obtained scores of some of his works for me; Walter Bilas, who made a search for scores in the Library of Kiev University during a visit to Russia; Detlef Gojowy; Maurice Hinson; Isobel Lambot; Eunice Mistarz; Frans Schreuder of Rotterdam Conservatory; John Thornley of the B.B.C. Music Department; and Prince Wolkonsky—all of whom supplied useful information; the staff of The Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR, who provided contacts and attempted to negotiate with the Soviet Composers’ Union, both by correspondence and during visits to Russia; Caroline Bagnall, Teresa Levitt, Lester Shaw, and David Mossop, who provided valuable assistance with translation work and in dealing with documents and correspondence abroad.

The staff of the following publishing houses kindly conducted searches in their archives and supplied copies of scores long out of print: Boosey and Hawkes, Heugel, Novello and Company, Carl Fischer, Robert Lienau, Edition Peters, Salabert, Hans Sikorski, United Music Publishers, and Universal Edition. The Music Publishers’ Associations of London and New York and the Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband, Bonn, provided help in tracing the present holders of archives from firms no longer in business.

Special credit is due to my wife, Daphne, for her constant assistance and support, helping with the correspondence, typing the text and all the preliminary essays, and checking and editing the final manuscript. Without her help this project would never have been finished.