Acknowledgement

Many individuals have supported and assisted us along the way to launching our American Friends of the Leipzig Gewandhaus in New York in February 2010.

In particular, we would like to thank Monika Harms, Federal Prosecutor General of Germany, Gerhard Wegen from the law firm of Gleiss Lutz in Stuttgart; in New York, Jeffrey B. Samuels from the firm of Paul, Weiss and Peter Brown from Baker Hostetler; and the Society of the Friends of the Gewandhaus and its President, Andreas Creuzburg.