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Audio-visual materials provided on this website are from the archives of the Polish Radio, Documentary and Feature Film Production Company (WFDiF), Polskie Nagrania Recording Company, the Polish Television, and from the Maestro’s family archives. Copyrights to the materials kept in WFDiF’s archives are held by WFDiF. Film tapes are from the National Film Archive (Filmoteka Narodowa).

Photographs and scanned documents provided on the website are mostly from the family archives of Witold Rowicki as well as, among others: from the collections of the Warsaw Philharmonic, the National Library of Poland in Warsaw, the archives of the National Symphonic Orchestra of the Polish Radio (NOSPR), and the private archives of the Maestro’s friends and family. Their authors are: Henryk Bietkowski, Bernd Böhner, Elfriede Broneder, Daniel C. Bradley, Marek Holzman, A. Komorowski, Józef Kicman, Z. Matuszewski, Barbara Meffert, G. Różański, Wł. Sławny, Jerzy Woźniak, Jan Zegalski, Andrzej Zborski, Andrzej Żak. The authors of the website have taken all efforts to identify the authors of all photographs and not to omit any of them. If, however, our efforts have been unsuccessful, please contact us so that we can promptly add the relevant information.ographs and scanned documents provided on the website are mostly from the family archives of Witold Rowicki as well as, among others: from the collections of the Warsaw Philharmonic, the National Library of Poland in Warsaw, the archives of the National Symphonic Orchestra of the Polish Radio (NOSPR), and the private archives of the Maestro’s friends and family. Their authors are: Henryk Bietkowski, Bernd Böhner, Elfriede Broneder, Daniel C. Bradley, Marek Holzman, A. Komorowski, Józef Kicman, Z. Matuszewski, Barbara Meffert, G. Różański, Wł. Sławny, Jerzy Woźniak, Jan Zegalski, Andrzej Zborski, Andrzej Żak. The authors of the website have taken all efforts to identify the authors of all photographs and not to omit any of them. If, however, our efforts have been unsuccessful, please contact us so that we can promptly add the relevant information. The licensor of phonograms made available in sections “Radio Programmes” and “Interviews” is the POLISH RADIO

The authors of the website wish to thank, in particular:

Marian Gołębiowski, director of the Warsaw Philharmonic, for his assistance and most valuable inspirations

The Warsaw Philharmonic, for making available all materials necessary to create this website, enormous patience in the course of their selection and continued support

The National Library of Poland, for great assistance in preparing photographs, music scores and other archival documents

The Polish Radio (Polskie Radio S.A.), for making available the materials and their descriptions

The Polish Radio in Katowice (Polskie Radio Katowice S.A.), for making available the materials, kindliness, professionalism and prompt assistance

Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, for kind reaction to our requests

Documentary and Feature Film Production Company (WFDiF), for assistance in selecting and retrieving fragments of newsreels, and for its consent to using fragments of the film titled “Cień pod kamieniem” directed by T. Dobrowolski
Polskie Nagrania Recording Company, for its consent to using fragments of recordings made under the baton of Witold Rowicki

The National Symphonic Orchestra of the Polish Radio (NOSPR), for nice co-operation and valuable ideas
The Great Theatre – the National Opera in Warsaw, The Music Theatre in Gdynia, The Artur Rubinstein Łódź Philharmonic, for responding to our requests
Renata Karczewska, for the translation of texts for the English version of the website
Agnieszka Biedka, for the translation of German texts for the website
Robert Kamyk, the head of the TVP Kultura Music Desk, for a wonderful idea without which this website would not have been created at all

Wanda Wiłkomirska, musicians of the Bamberger Symphoniker: Walter Forchert, Marcus Ruldolf and Klaus Karger, and Pedro Kranz, long-time manager of Witold Rowicki, for memories, anecdotes, guidance and great enthusiasm

All authors of the photographs, for the materials they provided without which this website would not be complete

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Our Family and Friends, for their patience, many warm-hearted words and keeping their fingers crossed for the success of the above project.