1. Tempo moderato, sempre un poco rubato
2. Allegro vivace
3. Poco adagio
4. Presto

• Year of composition: Byn, Ödsmål, summer 1916
• Work category: String quartet
• First performed: 15 April 1918 by the Göteborgskvartetten [the Gothenburg Quartet] at the Göteborgs konserthus [The Gothenburg Concert Hall]. In Stockholm on 17 April 1918 by the Burginkvartetten [Burgin Quartet]
• Duration: 26 min
• Detailed duration: movement no. 1: 8'20" , movement no. 2: 2'58" , movement no. 3: 8'21" , movement no. 4: 6'25" (Caprice)

Examples of printed editions

Musikaliska konstföreningen [the Swedish Art Music Society] 1928, parts and score

• Location autograph: Musik- och teaterbiblioteket
• Possible call no. and autograph comment: Wilhelm Stenhammars arkiv [the Wilhelm Stenhammar archive]

Literature

Rotter, Signe: Studien zu den Streichquartetten von Wilhelm Stenhammar (Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 2001)
Wallner, Bo: Wilhelm Stenhammar och hans tid, vol. 3 (Norstedts förlag, Stockholm 1991) [in Swedish, only]

Description of work

1. Tempo moderato, sempre un poco rubato D minor 4/4 (C), 163 bars
2. Allegro vivace B-flat major/D major 3/4, 251 bars
3. Poco adagio F major/F minor 12/8, 75 bars
4. Presto D minor 2/4, 412 bars