Only Connect - Niccolò Paganini <> Joseph Haydn
How are these sitters connected?
Nicolo Paganini
by Richard James Lane
published 1831
NPG D5451
Joseph Haydn
by William Daniell, after George Dance
published 1 July 1809 (20 March 1794)
NPG D12137
The connection
Arriving in Vienna in 1828 Niccolò Paganini wrote a set of variations on Franz Joseph Haydn’s Gott Erhalte Kaiser Franz, to curry favour with the Emperor.
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