Octets and Octopi By Patrick Burnette | Jazz Bastard January 28, 2021 View read count Sorry we can't find that content Click the play button to listen Hooray—we've made it alive through 2020 and ...

The 15 musicians -- half of them assistant principal chairs -- collaborated on two 19th-century octets. Felix Mendelssohn wrote his Octet in E-flat, Op. 20, in 1825, when he was 16.