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 | 1814 |
Type | String Quartet |
Tonality | F Minor |
Catalogue | Op. 95 |
Instruments |
Viola
Cello 2x Violin |
Autotranslations beta |
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quatuor à cordes n°11 en fa mineur, Op. 95 Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartetto d'archi n. 11 in fa minore, Op. 95 Ludwig van Beethoven: Streichquartett Nr. 11 f-moll, Op. 95 |