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Maurice Ravel and Paul Wittgenstein: Le Concerto pour la Main Gauche in Response to World War I
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein (1887–1961) lost his right arm during World War I. Wittgenstein recovered from the surgery, then in 1915 returned to Vienna to commission one of the most celebrated left-hand piano ...