String Quartet No. 5 (Beethoven)

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Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 5 in A major was published in 1801 as opus 18, no. 5, and was written between 1798 and 1800. Beethoven modeled this quartet directly on Mozart's quartet in the same key (K. 464).^[1]

Contents 1 Movements 2 Notes 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Movements

It consists of four movements:

1. Allegro
2. Menuetto
3. Andante cantabile
4. Allegro

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• Robert Winter, Robert Martin eds. (1994). The Beethoven Quartet Companion. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-08211-7. ; especially the essay by Michael Steinberg (pp. 150-155)

[edit] See also

• String Quartets Nos. 1 - 6, Opus 18 (Beethoven)

[edit] External links

• String Quartet No. 5 was available at the International Music Score Library Project.

v • d • 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 flat 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 flat major, Op. 74 (Harp) · No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 (Serioso) Late quartets No. 12 in E flat major, Op. 127 · No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130 · No. 14 in C sharp 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