ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
Music for his advice and assistance in my use of English musicological expressions.
Professor Roman Toi, PhD, of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto; Doctor Ea Jansen of
The Institute of History at Tallinn University for their valuable opinions; Professors
Margus Pärtlas and Eino Tamberg of the Estonian Academy of Music and Maris
Männik-Kirme of Tallinn University for their useful remarks.
I deliver my sincere gratitude to the musicologist Priit Kuusk for his thorough
and erudite help with annotations. My thanks also to the English editor Janusz Peters
and his research team Maria Ehrenberg and Karola Tönov for their kind assistance in
the preparation of the manuscript for publication.
And last but not least I owe many thanks to our prominent and meritorious
conductor Maestro Neeme Järvi for his essential assistance in setting the manuscript in
motion.