“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

Source: Personal Recollections (1981), p. 96

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Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

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