1. Introduzione: Adagio — Allegro, attacca
2. Adagio, attacca
3. Scherzo: Allegro, attacca
4. Finale: Allegro molto

• Year of composition: Stockholm, 28 October 1849
• Work category: String quartet
• First performed: 16 October 1902, Aulinkvartetten [The Aulin Quartet]
• Duration: 22 min

Examples of printed editions

Score: Monumenta Musicae Svecicae. Franz Berwald, Sämtliche Werke/Complete Works. Vol. 11. Eds. Nils Castegren, Lars Frydén, Erling Lomnäs. Bärenreiter BA 4911. Kassel, Basel, Paris, London, New York (1966)
Parts: Bärenreiter-Verlag Karl Vötterle GmbH & Co. KG. Kassel, publ. 1966.

Literature

Layton, Robert: Berwald, translation into Swedish by Folke H. Törnblom, Stockholm 1956, pp. 69, 81, 109, 111, 128, 133, 161f

Wallner, Bo: '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. 51-71 passim [in Swedish, only]

Description of work

1. Introduzione: Adagio A minor 4/4 (C) 20 bars, Allegro 40 bars, un poco meno Allegro 8 bars, tempo I 82 bars, un poco meno Allegro 8 bars, tempo I 70 bars, in total 227 bars, attacca
2. Adagio B-flat major 58 bars, attacca
3. Scherzo: Allegro F major 6/8 206 bars, attacca
4. Finale: Allegro molto A major 4/4 (C) 212 bars