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Wittgenstein appears as a character in Derek Jarman's 1993 film Wittgenstein, about his brother Ludwig. Wittgenstein is referenced extensively in the latter half of Brian Evenson's novel Last Days. [16] Wittgenstein's life is the basis for the Neil Halstead song "Wittgenstein's Arm" on his 2012 album Palindrome Hunches.
In November 1925 Stonborough-Wittgenstein commissioned Engelmann to design a large townhouse. She later invited her brother, Ludwig Wittgenstein, to help with the design, in part to distract him [citation needed] from the scandal surrounding the Haidbauer incident in April 1926: Wittgenstein, while working as a primary-school teacher, had hit a boy who had subsequently collapsed.
Suite for 2 Violins, Violoncello and Piano (left hand), Op. 23 (1930) CDP First performance in Vienna on 21 October 1930 by Wittgenstein with members of the Rosé Quartet. Josef Labor: Concert Piece in form of variations in D major (1915) DP Written when Wittgenstein was a prisoner of war in Omsk, Siberia, Russia. This was the work with which ...
Rudolf Wittgenstein (born 1881 in Vienna; died 1904 in Berlin by suicide) chemistry student; Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein (1882–1958), married Jerome Stonborough in 1904. Builder of the Haus Wittgenstein (of which her brother Ludwig was the architect) and longtime owner of the Villa Toscana . Painted by Gustav Klimt.
The best known left-hand concerto is the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D by Maurice Ravel, which was written for Paul Wittgenstein between 1929 and 1930. Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I, commissioned a number of such works around that time, as did Otakar Hollmann .
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat major for the left hand, Op. 53, was commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein and completed in 1931.. It was the only one of Prokofiev's complete piano concertos that never saw a performance during his lifetime.
Wittgenstein's first teaching job was in Trattenbach, a village between Vienna (Wien) and Graz. In August 1918 Wittgenstein completed his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in 1921 in Germany, and widely regarded as one of the most important works of 20th-century philosophy. After military service during the First World War, he ...
Wittgenstein may also refer to: Wittgenstein, Derek Jarman's 1993 biopic of Ludwig Wittgenstein; Wittgenstein family relatives of Ludwig Palais Wittgenstein in Vienna, Austria, now demolished residence of the family; Haus Wittgenstein, residence of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein in Vienna, Austria, partly designed by her brother Ludwig