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