"the best thing I've ever written in my life!"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Quintet in E flat major KV 452
Ludwig van Beethoven, Quintet in E flat major op. 16

"The best" - this is how W.A. Mozart described his Quintet for piano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn from 1784 in a letter to his father. No less impressive is the quintet by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1796, composed for the same instrumentation and in the same key.
Celebratory concert to mark the 50th anniversary of the Schlosskonzerte Bad Krozingen

Prof. Dr. Michael Maul, Leipzig, keynote speech: BACH for Future - Bach's music of the future, then and now