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Acknowledgments We would like to thank the following people for their help with this project: Paula Best, for providing copies of the programs from Rosenthal’s historical recitals at Wigmore Hall, London; Gino Francesconi, for providing a list of the repertoire Rosenthal played at Carnegie Hall, New York; Dr. Ingrid Fuchs, for providing access to Rosenthal’s writings in the archives of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna; Steven Heliotes, for providing copies of articles, letters, and other “Rosenthaliana” in his collection; Michael Hofmann, for his help clarifying some of the thornier passages in Rosenthal’s German; Angela Hughes, for making available Rosenthal’s letter to Herbert Hughes; the late Adele and Oskar Kanner, for making Rosenthal’s written and recorded legacy available; Dr. Antonio Latanza of the Museum of Musical Instruments, Rome, for providing prints of photographs of Rosenthal; Donald Manildi of the International Piano Archives,formakingavailablethe manuscript of “Mahleriana”; Russell W. Miller, Jon M. Samuels, and Jonathan Summers, for providing invaluable discographic information; and John Wilton, for restoring photographs. Thanks also to Miki Bird, Elizabeth Garman, Janet Rabinowitch, Suzanne Ryan, Robert Sloan, and Donna Wilson of Indiana University Press. Kaikhosru Sorabji’s review of a Rosenthal concert published in The New Age is reproduced by kind permission of The Sorabji Archive, Easton Dene, Bailbrook Lane, Bath BA1 7AA, England, from whom copies of all of Sorabji’s musical scores and literary writings may be obtained. The review of a Rosenthal concert published in The Musical Times and Rosenthal’s subsequent “Letter to the Editor”are reproducedbykindpermissionof that publication. Fritz Kuttner’s translation of “The Night Rubinstein Played Bratislava,” which originally appeared in the now defunct Stereo Review, is reproduced by kind permission of Sound & Vision. ...

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