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

The string quartet consists of four movements:

Recordings

Notes

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

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