1. Allegro ma non troppo
2. Adagio
3. Scherzo: Allegro, attacca
4. Aria variata ('Och riddaren han talte till unga Hillevi'): Andante semplice

• Year of composition: Movement 1: Särö 7 July 1904 - Firenze dec 1906 - movement 2: Firenze 1907 - Vestanå 26 June 1909 - movement 3 and 4: Vestanå 21 July 1909
• Work category: String quartet
• Dedication: To Jean Sibelius
• First performed: 10 January 1910 at the Intima Teatern, Stockholm, at one of August Strindberg's private music soirees. The first public performance took place on 7 March 1910 by the Aulinska kvartetten [the Aulin Quartet] in the hall of the Handelsinstitutet, Göteborg [the Gothenburg Commercial College]
• Duration: 32 min
• Detailed duration: movement no. 1: 9'30" , movement no. 2: 6' , movement no. 3: 6' , movement no. 4: 10'30"

Examples of printed editions

Wilhelm Hansen Musik-Forlag, Köpenhamn/ NMS

• 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)
Bo Wallner: Wilhelm Stenhammar och hans tid, vol. 3 (Norstedts Förlag, Stockholm, 1991) [in Swedish, only]

Description of work

1. Allegro ma non troppo A minor 4/4 (C), 226 bars
2. Adagio A major 3/8, 151 bars
3. Scherzo: Allegro C major 2/4, Presto A major 3/8, 542 bars (=26 /: 53:/ 131 / 93 / 53 / 119), attacca
4. Aria variata (’Och riddaren han talte till unga Hillevi’): Andante semplice A minor 2/4, 231 bars