Beethoven (17 December 1770 -- 26 March 1827) String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1 Afiara String Quartet (Live). Filmed live in The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space in New York for WQXR's Beethoven String Quartet Marathon on November 18, 2012. The String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18, No. 1, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1798 and 1800 and published..