String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
by Ludwig van Beethoven
ViolinViolaCelloClassicalString Quartet~40 minprofessional
Beethoven considered this his greatest quartet. Seven movements played without pause, opening with a transcendent fugue. Schubert reportedly said of it, "After this, what is left for us to write?" The work pushes the boundaries of the string quartet form to its absolute limits.
Editions
Henle Verlag
Emil Platen, 2009
Critical urtext edition with parts. Based on autograph and first edition.
★★★★★
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Bärenreiter
Jonathan Del Mar, 2017
New critical edition resolving discrepancies between autograph and first edition.
★★★★★
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