According to Carl Czerny, the second movement of the quartet occurred to Beethoven as he contemplated the starry sky and thought of the music of the spheres (Thayer, Life of Beethoven); it has a hymnlike quality reminiscent of a much later devotion, the "Heiliger Dankgesang" hymn to the Divine in the Quartet Op. 132.
| Date of composition | 1806 |
| First published | 1808 (January) - Vienna: Comptoir des Arts et de l'Industrie |
| Dedicated to | Andreas Kyrillowitsch Graf Rasumowsky |
| Type | String Quartet |
| Tonality | E Minor |
| Catalogue | Op. 59 no. 2 |
| Instruments |
2x
Violin
Viola Cello |
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for Strings n°8 en mi mineur, Op. 59 no. 2 "Razumovsky" Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for Strings n. 8 in mi minore, Op. 59 no. 2 "Razumovsky" Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for Strings Nr. 8 e-moll, Op. 59 no. 2 "Razumovsky" |