Key Changes: Radio 3's Essential History of Classical Music Episodes Available now
1853: At Home, Among Friends
1853, D眉sseldorf. A young Johannes Brahms visits the home of Robert and Clara Schumann.
1848: Composing a Country
1848, Prague. Music becomes a rallying cry for nationhood.
1846: A Birmingham Oratorio
1846, Birmingham. The premiere of Mendelssohn's Elijah puts the city on the musical map.
1832: Ballet En Pointe
1832, Paris: the first dancer on pointe shoes ushers in the age of Romantic ballet.
1828: Playing with Fire
1828, Vienna. Virtuoso violinist Paganini puts the soloist centre-stage.
1822: Opera Fever
1822, Vienna. Rossini fever sweeps the opera world.
1816: Engineering Music
1816, Bavaria. Music meets machine.
1814: A Viennese Whirl
1814, Vienna. The waltz sweeps through Europe.
1808: Yes, we will have a pianoforte
1808, Hampshire. Jane Austen joins a growing craze for the pianoforte.
1807: A New Quartet
1807, Vienna. Beethoven pushes the string quartet into new territory.
