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String Quartet No. 11 (Schubert)

The String Quartet No. 11 in E major was composed by Franz Schubert in 1816. It was posthumously published as Op. 125 No. 2.

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Jul 19, 2026

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Possible portrait of the young Franz Schubert c. 1814, attributed to Josef Abel source ↗

The String Quartet No. 11 (D 353) in E major was composed by Franz Schubert in 1816. It was posthumously published as Op. 125 No. 2.

Movements

The string quartet has four movements:

Allegro con fuoco (E major)
Andante (A major)
Menuetto: Allegro vivace (E major, with Trio in C major)
Rondo: Allegro vivace (E major)

Sources

Sources

Franz Schubert's Works, Series V: Streichquartette edited by Joseph Hellmesberger and Eusebius Mandyczewski. Breitkopf & Härtel, 1890.
Otto Erich Deutsch (and others). Schubert Thematic Catalogue (several editions), No. 353.
New Schubert Edition, Series VI, Volume 4: String Quartets II edited by Werner Aderhold, Bärenreiter, 1994.

External links

External links

String Quartet No. 11: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project