Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No.16 in F, Op.135 - 1. Allegretto 2. Vivace

Key F major
Movements/Sections 4 movements
I. Allegretto
II. Vivace
Release Date: December 9, 1997
Lasalle String Quartet
Year/Date of Composition 1826
First Publication September 1827, Schlesinger (Berlin)
Dedication Johann Wolfmayer
Piece Style Classical
Instrumentation 2 Violins, viola, cello
Overview

Beethoven composed these quartets in the sequence 12, 15, 13, 14, 16, with quartets 15 and 13 being written simultaneously[citation needed]. The first three of the quartets (numbers 12, 13 and 15) were commissioned in 1822 by Prince Nicholas Galitzin, who in a letter dated 9 November 1822 offered to pay Beethoven: "..what you think proper" for the three works. In his reply of 25 January 1823, Beethoven stated his price: 50 Ducats for each opus.
The String Quartet No. 16 in F major, op. 135, by Ludwig van Beethoven was written in October 1826[1] and was the last substantial work he finished. Only the last movement of the Quartet op. 130, written as a replacement for the Große Fuge, was written later. The op. 135 quartet was premiered by the Schuppanzigh Quartet in March 1828.
The work is on a smaller scale than his other late quartets. For the third movement, Beethoven used variation techniques; he also did this in the second movement of his Quartet op. 127.[2] Under the introductory slow chords in the last movement Beethoven wrote in the manuscript "Muß es sein?" (Must it be?) to which he responds, with the faster main theme of the movement, "Es muß sein!" (It must be!). The whole movement is headed "Der schwer gefaßte Entschluß" ("The Difficult Decision").
It is in four movements:
AllegrettoVivaceLento assai, cantante e tranquillo"Der schwer gefaßte Entschluß (The difficult decision)." Grave, ma non troppo tanto (Muss es sein?/Must it be?) — Allegro (Es muss sein!/It must be!) — Grave, ma non troppo tratto — Allegro

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