It was Beethoven's favourite of the late quartets: he is quoted as remarking to a friend that he would find "a new manner of part-writing and, thank God, less lack of imagination than before". It is said that upon listening to a performance of this quartet, Schubert remarked, "After this, what is left for us to write?" Robert Schumann said that this quartet and Op. 127 had a "...grandeur [...] which no words can express. They seem to me to stand...on the extreme boundary of all that has hitherto been attained by human art and imagination."
| Date of composition | 1826 |
| Type | String Quartet |
| Tonality | C-sharp Minor |
| Catalogue | Op. 131 |
| Approx. duration | 40 minutes |
| Instruments |
Viola
Cello 2x Violin |
| Arrangements |
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Modest Mussorgsky: Presto, from String Quartet in c-sharp minor, Op. 131 transcription from Beethoven
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| Autotranslations beta |
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quatuor à cordes n°14 en do dièse mineur, Op. 131 Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartetto d'archi n. 14 in do diesis minore, Op. 131 Ludwig van Beethoven: Streichquartett Nr. 14 cis-moll, Op. 131 |