Daily Archives: June 16, 2012


Haydn’s famous Europe composer

By the time he came to write the string quartets published as Opus 76 and Opus 77, Haydn was undoubtedly the most famous living composer in the whole of Europe . He had recently returned from the highly successful second visitEngland, for which he had composed his last six symphonies, culminating in the brilliant and festive Drum […]

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Wittgenstein on Freud

Ludwig von Wittgenstein has justly been regarded as one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century, especially for his writings on the philosophy of language and logic. His work on psychoanalysis and criticism of his fellow Viennese, Sigmund Freud have however been generally overlooked. Wittgenstein is both highly critical of and at the same […]

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