Opinion: Rethinking Beethoven’s String Quartet op.135

String quartets: when you next perform the Beethoven op.135, I propose you consider doing something quite radical – end with the third movement, perhaps by reversing the order of the last two movements. I should say that I am neither a musician nor a musicologist. I am simply an avid music lover. Before I give you a possible academic justification for my proposal, let me tell you my aesthetic reason…