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April 11, 2009
Paul Wittgenstein plays Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major
A budding concert pianist when he lost his right arm to a Russian bullet in World War I (it was amputated in a Russian prison hospital in 1914), Wittgenstein commissioned the work from Maurice Ravel.
From the YouTube caption: "Wittgenstein also performed the premiere with Robert Heger and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra on January 5, 1932."
"This (very short) excerpt from the cadenza, recorded in Paris [in] 1933, shows some of Wittgenstein's piano technique."
Anthony Gottlieb's April 6, 2009 New Yorker article about the remarkable Wittgenstein family pulled me in and wouldn't let go.
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