1. Allegro
2. Andantino con variazioni
3. Scherzo: Allegro vivace - Trio - Scherzo da capo senza replica e poi atacca la coda
4. Finale: Allegro con brio

• Year of composition: 1872-83
  no. 1: Stockholm 30 March, 1872 (revised in Stockholm 3 September, 1878)
  no. 2: 11 April, 1872 (revised 8 September, 1878)
  no. 4: 17 April, 1883 (according to Bagge, movements nos. 1 and 2 were composed in 1871, no. 3 in 1878, and no. 4 in 1883)
• Work category: String quartet
• Duration: 32 min

• Location autograph: Musik- och teaterbiblioteket
• Possible call no. and autograph comment: Normans samling [Ludvig Norman's collection], opus 42. Score, earlier scores for movements nos. 1 and 2, as well as parts material (all in the composer's own hand)

Literature

• Bagge, Julius: Förteckning öfver Ludvig Normans tonverk, upprättad af Julius Bagge [List of Ludvig Norman's compositions, established by Julius Bagge]. Stockholm, 1886, p. 28
• Bo Wallner: 'Den svenska stråkkvartetten' [The Swedish string quartet]. In: Klassicism och romantik. Kungl. Musikaliska Akademiens skriftserie nr. 24 [Classicism and romance. No. 24 of the publication series of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music], Stockholm 1979, pp. 78−81 (pp. 71-86 on Norman's Quartets)

Description of work

1. Allegro C major alla breve, /:143 bars:/, 181 bars, in total 324 bars
2. Andantino con variazioni F major 6/8, 56 bars, F minor, 20 bars, F major, 43 bars, in total 119 bars
3. Scherzo: Allegro vivace C minor 3/4, /:169 bars:/, 79 bars, Trio Ass major, 76 bars, Scherzo da capo senza replica e poi atacca [sic] la coda, 158 bars, in total 482 bars
4. Finale: Allegro con brio C major alla breve, 230 bars