1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Menuetto - Trio - Menuetto da capo
4. Finale: Allegro

• Year of composition: Probably sometime between the years 1785-96 (Mörner)
• Work category: String quartet
• Dedication: Joseph Haydn [according to the composer’s daughter Christina Maria Wikmanson’s foreword to the first edition of the Quartets Opus 1 (1801)]
• Duration: 24 min
• Detailed duration: 1. 5'08'', 2. 7'48'', 3. 6'26'', 4. 4'40'' according to Johan Wikmanson: Stråkkvartetter Opus 1 Nr 1-3 [String Quartets Opus 1 Nos. 1-3], Proprius PRCD 9114/Musica Sveciae MSCD 402 (1995) (Freskkvartetten [The Fresk Quartet])

Examples of printed editions

• Stockholm [1801]. Kongl. Priviligierade Not-Tryckeriet (parts).
• Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipsic [sic; Leipzig] (1801).
• Stockholm, A.B.F:s Musikkommitté, 1932 (parts).
• Edition Suecia, ed. Kurt Atterberg, utg. 1965 (score to the quartets op. 1-3, with preface by Atterberg).
• Almqvist & Wiksell/Stockholm MCMLXX (Monumenta Musicae Sveciae: 6), 1969/70 Bonnie Hammar & Erling Lomnäs (score and parts); digitised edition: Levande Musikarv/Swedish Musical Heritage no. 2014 (2018)

Location for score and part material

Musik- och teaterbiblioteket

Literature

Mörner, C.-G. Stellan: Johan Wikmanson und die Brüder Silverstolpe; Einige Stockholmer Persönlichkeiten im Musikleben des Gustavianischen Zeitalters, (diss., Uppsala University), Stockholm 1952, pp. 176-181; a comparative analysis of Wikmanson's Quartets from a stylistic-historical perspective, pp. 182-192.

Description of work

1. Allegro D minor 3/4 /:99 bars:/158 bars, in total 257 bars
2. Adagio D minor 4/4 (C) 106 bars
3. Menuetto D minor 3/4 /:14://:44 bars:/6 bars, Trio D major /:8 bars:/32 bars:/1 bar, Menuetto da capo D minor 58 bars, in total 163 bars (including the da capo).
4. Finale: Allegro D minor 12/8 /:42 bars:/82 bars, in total 124 bars