String Quartet No. 5 (Beethoven)

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{{Infobox musical composition

| name = String Quartet

| subtitle = No. 5

| type = Early string quartet

| composer = {{nowrap|Ludwig van Beethoven}}

| image = Ludwig van Beethoven, aged twenty-six (1796).jpg

| image_upright = 0.8

| caption = Ludwig van Beethoven, {{c.|1796}}

| key = A major

| opus = 18, No. 5

| composed = 1798–1800

| dedication = Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz

| published = 1801

| duration =

| movements = Four

}}

The String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 18, No. 5, was written between 1798 and 1800 by Ludwig van Beethoven and published in 1801, and dedicated to Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz. Beethoven modeled this quartet directly on Mozart's quartet in the same key, K. 464.{{cite book|editor1=Robert Winter|editor2=Robert Martin|title=The Beethoven Quartet Companion|chapter=String Quartet in A major, Op. 18, No. 5|pages=165–170|author=Michael Steinberg|publisher=University of California Press|year=1994|isbn=0-520-08211-7}}