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Pianist \u003cstrong\u003eFolke Nauta\u003c\/strong\u003e recently lost the use of his right hand due to focal dystonia.\r\n\r\nFolke followed Paul Wittgenstein's trail. He traced a treasure trove of hidden chamber music for piano left hand from Wittgenstein's library and took it to clarinetist Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer and Prisma String Trio. These five musicians made a daring plan for two double albums, 21 concerts, four new compositions and a podcast documentary.\r\n\u003ch3\u003eTreasure Trove\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\nFor far too long Paul Wittgenstein's library was inaccessible to the world. The pianist who commissioned Maurice Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand had passed away in 1961, but his widow kept the monumental doors of their country manor firmly closed. Every musicologist knew that there must be a treasure trove hidden inside. It was not until her death in 2001 that te library was opened to the public; the first visitors must have felt like archeologists entering into a nineteenth-century world. Amidst Beethoven's scores and a hair lock of Brahms, they discovered a pile of chamber music, specially composed for the one-handed pianist. Many works had been premièred by him in the 1920s and 30s and had since lain in quiet neglect; waiting.\r\n\u003ch3\u003eWaiting\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\nWaiting for whom? Pianists who had lost the use of their right hand in mid-career, as a result of an accident or injury. However, those seeking repertoire for the left hand came away disappointed. Among them was Siegfried Rapp, for instance, who received a letter on 5 June 1950 with the message: \u003cem\u003e‘You don't build a house just so that someone else can live in it. I commissioned and paid for the works, the whole idea was mine [...]. But those works to which I still have the exclusive performance rights are to remain mine as long as I still perform in public; that's only right and fair. Once I am dead or no longer give concerts, then the works will be available to everyone because I have no wish for them to gather dust in libraries to the detriment of the composer.’\u003c\/em\u003e -- Paul Wittgenstein\r\n\u003ch3\u003eOriginal Manuscripts\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\nFinally, the opportunity has arrived to restore Wittgenstein's entire chamber music legacy to the place where it belongs: the concert stage. The Dutch pianist Folke Nauta had to continue his career as a one-handed pianist, after focal dystonia affected his right hand. Wittgenstein was his model and this trove of chamber music was his salvation. There was just one complicating factor: Wittgenstein's library had become dispersed throughout the world.\r\n\r\nNauta tracked down the original manuscripts in Austrian and English archives, still containing Wittgenstein's furiously scribbled annotations. The quintet formation of piano, clarinet and string trio is a consistent feature of Wittgenstein's chamber music legacy.\r\n\r\nSo Nauta approached the clarinettist Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer and Prisma String Trio. 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