String Quartet No. 5 (Beethoven)

String Quartet
String Quartet
No. 5
Early string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven
	Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1796
Key	A major
Opus	18, No. 5
Composed	1798–1800
Dedication	Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz
Published	1801
Movements	Four

The String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 18, No. 5, was written between 1798 and 1800 by Ludwig van Beethoven and published in 1801, and dedicated to Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz. Beethoven modeled this quartet directly on Mozart's quartet in the same key, K. 464.^[1]

Movements

Part of Menuetto from String Quartet No. 5, performed in 1938 by the Hague String Quartet, consisting of Sam Swaap, Adolf Poth, Jean Devert and Charles van Isterdael [nl]

The string quartet consists of four movements:

Allegro (A major)
Menuetto (A major)
Andante cantabile (Theme with variations, D major)
Allegro (A major)

Notes

^ Michael Steinberg (1994). "String Quartet in A major, Op. 18, No. 5". In Robert Winter; Robert Martin (eds.). The Beethoven Quartet Companion. University of California Press. pp. 165–170. ISBN 0-520-08211-7.

External links

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[1] Michael Steinberg (1994). "String Quartet in A major, Op. 18, No. 5". In Robert Winter; Robert Martin (eds.). The Beethoven Quartet Companion. University of California Press. pp. 165–170. ISBN 0-520-08211-7.

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v t e String quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven
Opus 18	No. 1 in F major No. 2 in G major No. 3 in D major No. 4 in C minor No. 5 in A major No. 6 in B♭ major
Opus 59 (Rasumovsky)	No. 7 in F major No. 8 in E minor No. 9 in C major
Other middle period quartets	No. 10 in E♭ major, Op. 74 (Harp) No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 (Serioso)
Late quartets	No. 12 in E♭ major, Op. 127 No. 13 in B♭ major, Op. 130 No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 131 No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 Große Fuge, Op. 133 No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
String quartet arrangement of Op. 14, No. 1 by Beethoven

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