Only Connect - Wolfgang Mozart <> Ludwig Van Beethoven
How are these sitters connected?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Friedrich Theodor Müller, after Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt
early 19th century
NPG D13753
Ludwig van Beethoven
by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling, after Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
(1823)
NPG D13759
The connection
On his first visit to Vienna in 1787, the 16-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven sought advice from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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