Only Connect - Joseph Haydn <> Wolfgang Mozart

How are these sitters connected?

 Joseph Haydn by William Daniell, after George Dance published 1 July 1809 (20 March 1794) NPG D12137

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

The connection
In 1785, the tenor Michael Kelly heard Mozart and Haydn playing string quartets in Vienna, together with fellow-composers Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf and Johann Baptist Vanhal.

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