String Quintet, Op. 4 (Beethoven)

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String Quintet
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven in 1801, portrait by Carl Traugott Riedel
Key	E-flat major
Opus	4
Related	adapted from his Octet
Composed	1795 (1795)
Published	1796 (1796)
Movements	four
Scoring	2 violins 2 violas cello

The String Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 4, was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1795. It was adapted from his Octet in E-flat major, Op. 103, which, despite its high opus number, was in fact composed by Beethoven in 1792/1793 but was published only in 1837, ten years after the composer's death. The Quintet was published in Vienna in 1796.