offers a new window onto his work and influence: “Ludwig Wittgenstein’s only known musical work had its world premiere last week in Cambridge. It is called, according to the title that he had pencilled above his two-line score, Leidenschaftlich (in English, ‘Passionate’). At four bars, it lasts less than 30 seconds and is little more than a powerful, fiery flourish.
Yet it brought an invited audience of 150 curious Wittgenstein enthusiasts, unaware of his musical pretensions, to Emmanuel College’s acoustically refined new Queen’s Hall auditorium…” —Andante
