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{{Infobox musical composition
| name = String Quartet
| subtitle = No. 5
| type = [[String Quartets, Op. 18 (Beethoven)|Early string quartet]]
| composer = {{nowrap|[[Ludwig van Beethoven]]}}
| image = Ludwig van Beethoven, aged twenty-six (1796).jpg
| image_upright = 0.8
| caption = Ludwig van Beethoven, {{c.|1796}}
| key = [[A major]]
| opus = 18, No. 5
| composed = 1798–1800
| dedication = [[Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz]]
| published = 1801
| duration = 
| movements = Four
}}
The '''String Quartet No. 5''' in [[A major]], [[Opus number|Op.]] 18, No. 5, was written between 1798 and 1800 by [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] and published in 1801, and dedicated to [[Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz]]. Beethoven modeled this [[string quartet|quartet]] directly on Mozart's quartet in the same key, [[String Quartet No. 18 (Mozart)|K. 464]].<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Robert Winter|editor2=Robert Martin|title=The Beethoven Quartet Companion|chapter=String Quartet in A major, Op. 18, No. 5|pages=165–170|author=[[Michael Steinberg (music critic)|Michael Steinberg]]|publisher=University of California Press|year=1994|isbn=0-520-08211-7}}</ref>

==Movements==
{{stack|[[File:Haags Strijkkwartet (1938) - Minuet of String Quartet No. 5 (Beethoven) - Polygoon nieuws weeknummer 38-06.ogg|thumb|Part of Menuetto from String Quartet No. 5, performed in 1938 by the Hague String Quartet, consisting of [[Sam Swaap]], Adolf Poth, Jean Devert and {{ill|Charles van Isterdael|nl}}]]}}
The string quartet consists of four [[movement (music)|movement]]s:
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| [[Tempo#Italian tempo markings|Allegro]] ([[A major]])
| [[Minuet|Menuetto]] - Trio (A major)
| Andante cantabile (Theme with variations, [[D major]])
| Allegro assai (A major)
}}

==Notes==
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== External links ==
* {{Commons category inline|String Quartet No. 5 (Beethoven)}}
* {{IMSLP|work=String Quartet No.5, Op.18 No.5 (Beethoven, Ludwig van)|cname=String Quartet No. 5 (Beethoven)}}

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