Only Connect - Niccolò Pagnini <> Ludwig Van Beethoven
How are these sitters connected?
Nicolo Paganini
by Richard James Lane
published 1831
NPG D5451
Ludwig van Beethoven
by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling, after Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
(1823)
NPG D13759
The connection
Niccolò Paganini endeavoured to purchase the parts all of Beethoven’s quartets, including the late ones, before arriving in Vienna in 1828.
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