Arthur Kaptainis: Which is the grand finale? A Beethovenian debate

The main event of the Montreal Chamber Music Festival is a traversal in six concerts by the Dover Quartet of Beethoven’s 17 works for string quartet. Or should that be 16 with a kicker?
One might suppose the matter can be easily settled, but the standard count of 17 has been challenged by a tendency to play the fearsome Grosse Fuge Op. 133 as a finale to Op. 130.
This is how Beethoven originally wrote Op. 130 and how the six-movement work was first performed on March 21, 1826. Contemporary