Chris (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} simon_stylites) wrote,@ 2009-01-08 20:13:00 |
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if you could go back in time etc.
So I had this thought the other day. I was listening to the Brahms Clarinet Quintet on my way to school, and thinking about how it was premiered at the Wittgenstein's house. (Like, what?! I know!) And I thought, you know, that would be an excellent thing to have been at, the meeting of this great piece of chamber music and a brilliant philosopher...
Except, then I thought, wait, when did that quintet get written? Sometime in the late 19th c., right? And Wittgenstein was born, what, 1888? (Answer: 1889.) So was he even there when the quintet premiered?
Answer: The quintet was written in 1891. Ludwig was two-and-a-half years old. And while I'm sure he was adorable and precocious, it's just not quite the same as if he had been a little older.
So I had this thought the other day. I was listening to the Brahms Clarinet Quintet on my way to school, and thinking about how it was premiered at the Wittgenstein's house. (Like, what?! I know!) And I thought, you know, that would be an excellent thing to have been at, the meeting of this great piece of chamber music and a brilliant philosopher...
Except, then I thought, wait, when did that quintet get written? Sometime in the late 19th c., right? And Wittgenstein was born, what, 1888? (Answer: 1889.) So was he even there when the quintet premiered?
Answer: The quintet was written in 1891. Ludwig was two-and-a-half years old. And while I'm sure he was adorable and precocious, it's just not quite the same as if he had been a little older.
