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Three portraits of Beethoven, in 1803, 1815 and 1820 If Beethoven is among the very few composers to be associated with particular keys, it’s largely because he lived at a time when technological advancements in instrument design had made the performance of music in any given tonality possible, and before the first signs of this system breaking down – heralded by the ambiguous t...

Frederick the Great (flute) playing chamber music: detail from a painting by Adolph Menzel (1850-52) The term chamber music covers a vast range of works, the number of performers involved being perhaps the easiest way of differentiating between them. It is generally accepted that music written for a single instrument counts as a separate entity, but as long as the performers wil...