This work is the first of three quartets commissioned by prince Andrey Razumovsky, then the Russian ambassador to Vienna. This quartet is the first of Beethoven's middle period quartets and departs in style from his earlier Op. 18 quartets. The most apparent difference is that this quartet is over forty minutes long in a typical performance, whereas most of Beethoven's earlier quartets lasted twenty-five to thirty minutes. Furthermore, this quartet notoriously requires a greatly expanded technical repertoire.

Original Name Razumovsky
Date of composition 1806 (1805-1806)
First published 1808 (January) - Vienna: Comptoir des Arts et de l'Industrie
Dedicated to Andreas Kyrillowitsch Graf Rasumowsky
Type String Quartet
Tonality F Major
Catalogue Op. 59 No.1
Instruments 2x Violin
Viola
Cello
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Autotranslations beta Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for Strings n°7 en fa majeur, Op. 59 No.1
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for Strings n. 7 in fa maggiore, Op. 59 No.1
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for Strings Nr. 7 F-dur, Op. 59 No.1