1. Allegro con brio
2. Adagio
3. Menuetto
4. Allegretto

• Year of composition: Before 1807
• Work category: String quartet
• Dedication: '...par J.G.N. Eggert composès [sic] & dediés [sic] à Mr E. M. Stenberg & Mme Charlotte Stenberg née de Westman'
• First performed: 14 May 1807, Kungliga Operan [The Royal Opera], Stockholm (one of the quartets from Opus 1:1-3 was performed at a symphony concert)
• Duration: Approx. 30-40 min
• Detailed duration: c. 30 min

Examples of printed editions

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

Location for score and part material

Musik- och teaterbiblioteket
Lunds Universitetsbibliotek [Lund University Libraries] (Wenster Ab 11)

• Location autograph: Musik- och teaterbiblioteket
• Possible call no. and autograph comment: In the collections of the Musik- och teaterbiblioteket there are several transcriptions, but with different number of bars

Literature

Nisser, Carl: Svensk Instrumentalkomposition 1770-1830 - Nominalkatalog (Bokförlaget Gothia, Stockholm 1943)
Norlind, Tobias/Broman, Sten: Eggert och Küster, konsertverksamhet och kompositioner (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 kand.-uppsats, Uppsala 1951, opublicerad) [Bachelor's thesis, Uppsala 1951, unpublished]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. Allegro con brio C major 4/4 (C), 239 bars ( = /:86:/153)
2. Adagio F major 4/4 (C), 70 bars
3. Menuetto C minor 3/4, 142 bars (= /:21://:34://: C major 10:/22/ D.C.)
4. Allegretto C major 2/4, 291 bars

Links

Listen to the 1st movement performed by Vadstenasolisterna on YouTube.