Paul Wittgenstein. Collection of photographs, concert programmes, letters, posters, articles and clippings, late C19th-C20th

Paul Wittgenstein

Collection of photographs, concert programmes, posters, letters, promotional literature, articles and newspaper clippings etc.

relating to Wittgenstein at all stages of his concert career after the First World War, the concert programmes including for first performances of major works, containing information about concerts in Europe and America, together with biographical documentation, including of his military career, together with a 50-page account by Wittgenstein of his two concert tours in the Soviet Union, and many other items, including drafts of writings on keyboard music for the left hand

over 650 items in all, various sizes, in 10 large archival folders and one cloth-backed album, together with a brown leather suitcase belonging to Wittgenstein, his initials stamped below the handle (14.4 x 50.5 x 34cm), Vienna, New York, and elsewhere, late C19th-C20th

The visual and documentary record of one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century. See previous lot.

PROVENANCE:

From the Music archive and Library of Paul Wittgenstein