1. Adagio - Allegro risoluto
2. Adagio
3. Menuetto
4. Allegro

• Year of composition: About 1800-1810
• Work category: String quartet
• Dedication: "composées & dediées à mes Amis Mrs [Messieurs] Erik Drake & Leonard Rääf" (according to the autograph)
• Duration: Approx. 30-40 min
• Detailed duration: Approx. 38 minutes

Examples of printed editions

Swedish Musical Heritage, Stockholm 2020. Critical edition by Tomas Gunnarsson

Location for score and part material

Parts material can be found at the Musik- och teaterbiblioteket and the Lunds Universitetsbibliotek [Lund University Libraries], respectively (Wenster Ab 11)

• Location autograph: Musik- och teaterbiblioteket
• Possible call no. and autograph comment: Eggerts samling [Eggert's collection] (the autograph bears the stamp reproducing Drake's signature). Opus 2 comprises three quartets

Literature

Nisser, Carl: Svensk Instrumentalkomposition 1770-1830 - Nominalkatalog (Bokförlaget Gothia, Stockholm 1943)
Norlind, Tobias/Broman, Sten: Eggert och Küster, konsertverksamhet och kompositioner [concerts and compositions] (Svensk Tidskrift för Musikforskning 1925, pp. 49-63)
Tyboni, Börje: Något om J N Eggerts kammarmusik (Fil. kand.-uppsats, Uppsala 1951, opublicerad) [Bachelor's thesis, Uppsala 1951, unpublished]

Description of work

1. Adagio - Allegro risoluto D minor - D major 4/4 (C)
2. Adagio F minor 4/4 (C)
3. Menuetto D minor - D major - D minor 3/4
4. Allegro D major 6/8