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The quartet consists of four movements: 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 version that was sent to the publisher a year later, including changing the second movement's marking from ''Adagio molto'' to the more specific ''Adagio affetuouso ed appassionato''. Of these modifications, Beethoven wrote : "''Be sure not to hand on to anybody your quartet, in which I have made some drastic alterations. For only now have I learnt to write quartets; and this you will notice, I fancy, when you receive them.''" + Martin, p. 151 REFERENCES
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