It is one of the shortest and most compact of all the Beethoven quartets, and shares a tonality (F) with the first and last quartets Beethoven published (Op. 18, no. 1, and Op. 135). In character and key, as well as in the presence of a final frenetic section in the parallel major, it is related to another composition of Beethoven's middle period — the overture to his incidental music for Goethe's drama Egmont, which he was composing in the same year he was working on this quartet.
| Date of composition | 1810 |
| First published | 1816 (December) - Vienna: Steiner |
| Dedicated to | Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanovetz |
| Type | String Quartet |
| Tonality | F Minor |
| Catalogue | Op. 95 |
| Instruments |
2x
Violin
Viola Cello |
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for Strings n°11 en fa mineur, Op. 95 "Serioso" Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for Strings n. 11 in fa minore, Op. 95 "Serioso" Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for Strings Nr. 11 f-moll, Op. 95 "Serioso" |