Only Connect - Ludwig van Beethoven <> Sir Michael Tippett

How are these sitters connected?

 Ludwig van Beethoven by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling, after Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1823) NPG D13759

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett by Martin Rose 1989 NPG 6043

The connection
Composer Michael Tippett modelled his quartets on those of Beethoven. Tippett’s Fourth Quartet  is a reflection of T. S. Eliot’s set of poems, the ‘Four Quartets’.

Find out more about Van Beethoven connections with co-curator Peter Sheppard Skaerved

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Ludwig Van Beethoven <> Richard Cosway

Ludwig Van Beethoven <> Thomas Eliot

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