3. Salon: The family Wittgenstein and the music

Margret Stonborough-Wittgenstein organised numerous high-calibre music evenings at Villa Toscana. Her parents had already practised this in the Vienna of her childhood. What an intimate relationship between the Wittgenstein family and music runs through their history, and what links Paul Wittgenstein, who became famous as a "one-handed pianist", with Gmunden? 

Programme

3rd Salon: The Wittgenstein family and music
Performance Friday, 14 June 2024, 18:00                
Lectures and music Saturday, 15 June 2024, 18:00              
Concert and reading Sunday, 16 June 2024, 19:30 (Sold Out!)            

14 June 2024, 18:00
Performance by Nikolaus Gansterer and Klaus Speidel: Playing with Ludwig
 
In "Playing with Ludwig", artist Nikolaus Gansterer and philosopher Klaus Speidel explore fundamental questions about the creation of meaning in language and image. Together with the audience, selected sentences from the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein are playfully scrutinised. In a combination of drawings, dialogues and installations, they create a tableau that shows the traces of its creation and illustrates how meaning is created.
 
Nikolaus Gansterer is also represented in the exhibition with a six-metre-wide installation.

15 June 2024, 18:00
Lectures and concert: "The Wittgenstein family and music"
Margret Stonborough-Wittgenstein organised numerous high-calibre music evenings at Villa Toscana. Her parents had already set an example in Vienna during her childhood. What an intimate relationship between the Wittgenstein family and music runs through their history, and what links Paul Wittgenstein, who became famous as a "one-handed pianist", with Gmunden? 
Wittgenstein and musicologists Carmen Ottner, Ursula Prokop and Radmila Schweitzer will present their latest findings on these topics. 
The evening will be musically framed by Sinfonia de Carnaval (Anna Lang and Alois Eberl).
3rd Salon
 
16 June 2024, 19:30 (Fully Booked!)
Concert and reading
Congress Gmunden Toscanapark 6, 4810 Gmunden
 
Erich W. Korngold (1897-1957)
Suite op.23 for 2 violins, violoncello and piano left hand (1930)
Franz Schmidt (1874-1939)
Quintet No.2 for 2 violins, violoncello, clarinet and piano left hand (1932)
On this evening, Hermann Beil will present excerpts from Paul Wittgenstein's life story in a specially prepared reading version.
 
A co-operation with the Festwochen Gmunden.