I have the permission of Lady Tovey to collect and reprint
these chamber music analyses in a volume, and for this and for
her help in all ways I warmly acknowledge my indebtedness to
her and offer my thanks. I have also to record my thanks to
Messrs. Joseph Williams, Ltd., the first enterprising publishers
of the early notes, by whose permission they are printed here;
to the British Broadcasting Corporation and to the Editor of the
Listener for leave to reprint the article on "Die Clavieriibung" of
Bach; to the Columbia Gramophone Company, Ltd., for leave
to reprint 'The Listener's Guide to Die Kunst der Fuge', issued
by that company as a companion pamphlet to the album of
records; and to Mr. A. A. Pearson for the essay on Chamber
Music from Cobbett Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music. To
Dr. Mary Grierson, Dr. Ernest Walker, and Mr. R. C. Trevelyan
I owe the warmest gratitude, both for help and advice, and because
by reading the proofs they have kept me in a narrow path of
comparative accuracy, which alone I could hardly have followed.

HUBERT J. Foss

1943

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