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The earliest brass chamber music was written in the mid to late 1800s and coincided with the invention of brass instruments that could play chromatically. The Distin family formed one of the first brass quintets in 1833, touring Europe and the United States to promote a new family of brass instruments called saxhorns. French composer Jean-Francois Bellon and Russian composer Victor Ewald, led the development of Brass chamber in Paris and Russia during this period. With improvements being made to many of the brass instruments, Jean-Francois Bellon composed several brass quintets as did Victor Ewald. Different instrumentations were used in many of Jean-Francois Bellon' s quintets and some of the best-known works were a series of three brass quintets by Victor Ewald.