BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 1 in F major ( Op. 18, No. 1) Score

The String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18, No. 1, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1798 and 1800, published in 1801, and dedicated to Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz. It is actually the second string quartet that Beethoven composed. According to Beethoven s friend Karl Amenda, the second movement was inspired by the tomb scene from William Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet. The quartet was heavily revised between the version that Amenda first received and the one that was sent to the publisher a year