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² Letter of 20 April 1904; quoted in Polony's ‘Preface to the score, Complete Edition, Vol. VI (Krakow: PWM, 1988): xv. Polony's monograph , Poetyka Muzyczna Mieczyslawa Karłowicz: Program literacki, ekspresja i symbol w poemacie symfonicznym (Krakow: PWM, 1986)Google Scholar remains the best survey of Karłowicz's orchestral music.

³ Wightman, Alistair, Karłowicz, Young Poland and the Musical Fin-de-siècle (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996): 41.Google Scholar

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⁵ Leszek Polony, ‘Karłowicz – A Sad Story: A Musical Study of Young Poland's Melancholy’, preface to the score: 16. This was probably spurred by the suicide of the writer Józefat Nowkiński, on whose dramatic poem Biala golabka (‘The White Dove’) Karowicz wrote an overture and incidental music. On wider resonances of the suicide theme see Anders, Henryk, Mieczyslaw Karłowicz: Zycie i dokonania (Poznań: Abos, 1998): 483Google Scholar.

⁶ Polony, , ‘Karłowicz – A Sad Story’: 19.Google Scholar

⁷ Wightman, , Karłowicz: 83Google Scholar ; Polony, , ‘Karłowicz – A Sad Story’: 19Google Scholar.

⁸ The Guardian, 2 Dec. 2005.