The third movement of this quartet bears the resounding name "Holy hymn of gratitude of a convalescent to the deity, in Lydian key". Beethoven had just recovered from a severe inflammation of the liver.This illness was only a brief episode in Beethoven's healthily difficult last third of his life.
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