1. Allegro con brio, attacca
2. Allegro di molto, attacca
3. Adagio quasi Andante, attacca
4. Scherzo: Allegro assai, attacca
5. Adagio, attacca
6. Allegro di molto

• Year of composition: Stockholm, 6 November 1849
• Work category: String 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, Paris, London, New York (1966)
Parts: Bärenreiter-Verlag Karl Vötterle GmbH & Co. KG. Kassel (1966)

Literature

Layton, Robert: Berwald, translation into Swedish by Folke H. Törnblom, Stockholm 1956, pp. 53, 69, 81, 110, 113, 128, 133, 146-147, 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. 51-71 passim [in Swedish, only]

Description of work

1. Allegro con brio E-flat major 4/4 (C) 29 bars, attacca
2. Allegro di molto 3/4 328 bars, attacca
3. Adagio quasi Andante A-flat major 51 bars, attacca
4. Scherzo: Allegro assai C minor 3/4 393 bars, attacca
5. Adagio A-flat major 4/4 (C) (C) 27 bars, attacca
6. Allegro di molto E-flat major 3/4 101 bars, in total (the whole Quartet) 907 bars