Only Connect - T.S. Eliot <> Ludwig van Beethoven

How are these sitters connected?

 T.S. Eliot by Patrick Heron 1949 NPG 4467

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

The connection
T. S. Eliot based his most musical of poems, the ‘Four Quartets’, on Beethoven’s ground-breaking late quartets.

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