Only Connect - Charles Burney <> Wolfgang Mozart

How are these sitters connected?

 Charles Burney by George Dance 1794 NPG 1140

(Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Friedrich Theodor Müller, after Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt early 19th century NPG D13753

The connection
In 1770, the musicologist Charles Burney met Mozart in Bologna. He wrote: ‘The little man is grown a good deal but still a little man.’

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