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Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

Ludwig Wittgenstein on music

Personal Recollections (1981), p. 96

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