Three bars by Wittgenstein
Three bars by Wittgenstein

Summary/Abstract: Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, in his diary (April 28, 1930): “I often think: the highest thing I’d wish to achieve is composing a melody. Or I’m amazed that when wishing to do so, a melody has never actually occurred to me. But then I have to say to myself that it is probably impossible that I will ever compose a melody, as I lack some or perhaps all of what it takes to do so. It floats before me as a lofty ideal as I would then be able to more or less sum up my life; and present it, as it were, crystallized out. It would perhaps be only a small, poor crystal, but still a crystal.”

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