1. Allegro moderato
2. Poco Adagio
3. Scherzo: Allegro
4. Allegretto

• Year of composition: Stockholm, 27 September 1818
• Work category: String quartet
• Duration: 32 min

Examples of printed editions

• 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 material: Bärenreiter-Verlag Karl Vötterle GmbH & Co. KG. Kassel, published in 1966

Literature

Broman, Sten: 'Ett märkligt Berwald-verk [(approx.) A peculiar work by Berwald] in the Sydsvenska Dagbladet 30 October, 1942

Layton, Robert: Berwald, translation into Swedish by Folke H. Törnblom, Stockholm 1956, pp. 29, 38, 41-43, 160, 162

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. 52-56 (on Berwald's Quartets: pp. 51-71).

Description of work

1. Allegro moderato G minor 4/4 (C) 338 bars
2. Poco Adagio B-flat major 2/4 25 bars, B-flat minor 24 bars, B-flat major 24 bars, in total 73 bars
3. Scherzo: Allegro G minor 3/4 198 bars, G major /:18 bars:/32 bars, Da capo al fine G minor 198 bars
4. Allegretto G major 2/4 229 bars, poco adagio 4 bars, tempo I 154 bars, in total 388 bars

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