Violin Sonata No. 5 (Beethoven)

24, is a four movement work for violin and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven.

[1] The sonata was dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries, a patron to whom Beethoven also dedicated two other works of the same year—the String Quintet in C major, Op.

[2] The autograph manuscript of the sonata is preserved in the Austrian National Library.

Beethoven initially intended to pair this work with his Violin Sonata No.

[4] The work is in four movements: The entire sonata takes approximately 22 minutes to perform.

The earliest known portrait of Beethoven; 1801 engraving by Johann Joseph Neidl after a now-lost portrait by Gandolph Ernst Stainhauser von Treuberg, ca. 1800