7
String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18 No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven · 1770–1827 · German
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 7 · Diploma — about DipABRSM / ATCL · RCM ARCT, for the violin 1 part
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Violin 1
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 27 min
- Composed
- 1799
- Era
- Classical
Notes
Revised in 1800; D-minor Adagio, fast virtuoso finale
About this work
- Composed
- 1799
- Dedicated to
- Franz Joseph Maximilian Fürst von Lobkowitz (1772–1816)
- Allegro con brio (313 bars, F major)
- Adagio affettuoso ed appasionato (110 bars, D minor)
- Scherzo. Allegro molto (230 bars, F major)
- Allegro (381 bars, F major)
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