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Wittgenstein (Paul, 1887-1961). One-armed pianist who commissioned works for the left hand and who was the only brother of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein Signed and inscribed printed score of Parergon zur Sinfonia Domestica Op. 73 [by] Richard Strauss, first piano reduction by Otto Singer, Vienna, 1926, 46 pp., original printed wrappers with some wear and loss to spine, signed and inscribed in blue ink to upper wrapper, 'To Mr Douglas Fox as a remembrance Mai 31 1927, Paul Wittgenstein', slim folio, together with a copy of the book Douglas Fox (D.G.A.F.), A Chronicle by Winifred Fox, privately printed, Bristol, 1976, Winifred Fox's copy with three annotations to the index and an autograph note written before the epilogue (dated 1979), regarding her brother's pianos and the person and establishment to whom they were left, original cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 2) The final form of the Perergon to the Sinfonia Domestica was written in 1925 for Paul Wittgenstein, for whom Strauss also wrote his Op. 74 Panathenäenzug. As one of the wealthiest musicians in Austria, Wittgenstein (who lost his right arm during the First World War) commissioned works for the left hand from composers that included Ravel, Prokofiev, Korngold, Franz Schmidt, Britten and Richard Strauss. The dedicatee of this particular score was the one-armed pianist Douglas Fox, (who also lost his right arm during the First World War) for whom Frank Bridge wrote his Three Improvisations for the Left Hand. According to his sister Winifred Fox, her brother and Wittgenstein met in Oxford and corresponded occasionally.