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String Quartet No. 5 in A major

String quartet in A major. 1800. Time: 30'00.

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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]

1 Movements
2 Notes
3 References
4 External links

Movements

It consists of four movements:

Allegro
Menuetto
Andante cantabile
Allegro

Notes

^ Winter R. and Martin R., 165-170.

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)

External links

String Quartet No. 5: Free scores 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♭ 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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