A famous performance of Haydn’s oratorio The Creation from 1808. The elderly Haydn is seated in the foreground, and Beethoven stands before him with a cane. The picture shows how much smaller orchestra and chorus were in the early nineteenth century; today’s typical performing forces for such a work would double the number onstage here. De Agostini Picture Library/A. Dagli Orti/The Bridgeman Art Library.