For all his mathematical savvy Hans’s abiding interest was in music, for which he displayed prodigious and phenomenal talent. At four years old he could identify the Doppler effect as a quarter-tone drop in pitch of a passing siren; at five, he flung himself to the ground in tears crying “Wrong! Wrong!” as two brass bands at opposite ends of a long carnival procession played, simultaneously, two marches in different keys.
— Alexander Waugh,
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War
pp. 24-25
— Alexander Waugh,
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War
pp. 24-25
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