In 2012, Nicholas McCarthy became the first one-handed pianist to graduate from London's illustrious Royal College of Music. McCarthy, who was born without a right hand, has since gone on to build a ...

In 1923, a brilliant Austrian pianist commissioned a revered German composer to pen a most unusual work: a piano concerto that would be played not with two hands but with one, while a symphony ...

Still from All in One Hand: The Pianist Paul Wittgenstein Occasionally, a musician grappling with an injury can end up making a permanent impact on his or her field. Such was the case of Paul ...

The descendants of legendary one-armed New York concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein — once heir to one of Europe’s wealthiest families — will get more than $6 million as repayment for money stolen by ...

With apologies to his cult, here’s a sound bite version of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophy: A concept is good when it’s exactly as rigorous as it needs to be. If your concept is too vague, it ...

It can suck when your younger brother is one of the 20th century's most revered philosophers of logic, math and mind. But when you're a musician and you lose your arm in World War I, and then have to ...