Written by Paul Desmond in the key of E-flat minor and performed by the Dave Brubeck Quartet using a funky quintuple (5/4) time, “Take Five” is and was the biggest selling jazz single of all time. But ...

Beethoven favored the key of E-flat major as a young composer in Bonn, Germany. He wrote a full piano trio and a single movement in the key in his early 20s. Vladimir Ashkenazy, Itzhak Perlman and ...