String Quartet No. 5 (Beethoven)

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]

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

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:

1. Allegro (A major)
2. Menuetto (A major)
3. Andante cantabile (Theme with variations, D major)
4. Allegro (A major)

Notes

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.

External links

• Media related to String Quartet No. 5 (Beethoven) at Wikimedia Commons
• String Quartet No. 5 (Beethoven): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project