Paul Wittgenstein
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Paul Wittgenstein was an Austrian-American concert pianist notable for commissioning new piano concerti for the left hand alone, after his right arm was amputated during World War I. He devised novel
Paul Wittgenstein playing the piano
Paul Wittgenstein (front left) with his siblings.
The Wittgenstein family, Vienna in mid 1917. From left, sibs Kurt, Paul, and Hermine Wittgenstein; brother-in-law, Max Salzer; mother, Leopoldine Wittgenstein; Helene Wittgenstein Salzer; and Ludwig Wittgenstein
Margaret "Gretl" Stonborough-Wittgenstein was a sister of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the pianist Paul Wittgenstein and a member of the wealthy Viennese Wittgenstein family. She was the su
Paul Wittgenstein
…previously thought impossible for a five-fingered pianist. He was an older brother of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and a younger brother of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein was born in Vienna, the fourth son and seventh of the eight children (excluding a daughter who died at birth) of industrialist Karl…
Photo by Ferdinand Schmutzer, 1903
Margarethe Stonborough-Wittgenstein painted by Gustav Klimt for her wedding portrait in 1905
Haus Wittgenstein, also known as Stonborough House, in Vienna