Only Connect - Joseph Joachim <> Ludwig Van Beethoven
How are these sitters connected?
Joseph Joachim
by Sir Leslie Ward
published in Vanity Fair 5 January 1905
NPG 4930
Ludwig van Beethoven
by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling, after Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
(1823)
NPG D13759
The connection
Twelve-year-old Joseph Joachim attained fame and status following his 1844 London debut performing the Beethoven Violin Concerto under the baton of Felix Mendelssohn.
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