Only Connect - Sir Michael Tippett <> Ludwig van Beethoven

How are these sitters connected?

 Sir Michael Kemp Tippett by Martin Rose 1989 NPG 6043

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

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 Tippett connections with co-curator Peter Sheppard Skaerved

Explore other Tippett connections

Sir Michael Tippett <> Barbara Hepworth

Sir Michael Tippett <> Priaulx Rainier

Sir Michael Tippett <> T.S. Eliot

Sir Michael Tippett <> Yehudi Menuhin

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