Home / Music / Beethoven's Op. 132 inspired T.S. Eliot's Four QuartetsMusic linernotes album music ludwig-van-beethovenBeethoven's Op. 132 inspired T.S. Eliot's Four QuartetsT. S. Eliot credited Beethoven’s Op. 132 quartet as an impetus for his Four Quartets, writing that he found it ‘quite inexhaustible to study.’ Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesBeethoven's Op. 135 is the lightest of the late quartets — short, Classical, almost playfulBeethoven's First Symphony nods to Haydn and Mozart but the sforzandi are all his ownBeethoven's Hammerklavier held the title for longest standard piano sonataBeethoven's String Quartet No. 14 has seven connected movementsBeethoven's String Quartet No. 15 has five movementsExploreTibetan Buddhism and Milarepa's teachings shaped Eliane Radigue's musicVic Chesnutt used a wheelchair after a car accident at eighteen left him partially paralyzedCaroline Shaw's Orange collects six string quartet piecesVusi Mahlasela's When You Come Back was recorded as apartheid ended in South AfricaBob Dylan's John Wesley Harding came after the basement tapes — but used none of themPrevious Beethoven's Op. 132 stretches sonata form to three rotationsNext Beethoven's Ninth was the first major symphony to use voices