Johan Wikmanson (1753-1800)

Quartett e moll [Quartet in E minor]
(From Tre Quartetter för Två violiner, Alt och Violoncelle. Tillägnade Joseph Haydn. Författade af Johan Wikmanson Musikälskare Op. 1 [Three Quartets for Two violins, Alto, and Violoncello. Dedicated to Joseph Haydn. Written by Johan Wikmanson Music lover Op. 1])

opus 1 no. 2

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1. Allegro di molto
2. Un poco adagio
3. Menuetto - Trio - Da capo il Menuetto ma senza replica e segue Finale - Finale
4. Prestissimo

  • Year of composition: Probably sometime between the years 1785-96 (Mörner)
  • Work category: String quartet
  • Dedication: Joseph Haydn [according to the composer’s daughter Christina Maria Wikmanson’s foreword to the first edition of the Quartets Opus 1 (1801)]
  • Duration: 24 min
  • Detailed duration: 1. 7'19'', 2. 8'15'', 3. 4'28'', 4. 4'04'' according to Johan Wikmanson: Stråkkvartetter Opus 1 Nr 1-3 [String Quartets Opus 1 Nos. 1-3], Proprius PRCD 9114/Musica Sveciae MSCD 402 (1995) (Berwaldkvartetten [The Berwald Quartet])

Examples of printed editions

• Stockholm [1801]. Kongl. Priviligierade Not-Tryckeriet (parts).
• Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipsic [sic; Leipzig] (1801).
• Edition Suecia, ed. Kurt Atterberg, publ. 1965 (score to the quartets op. 1-3, with preface by Atterberg).
• Almqvist & Wiksell/Stockholm MCMLXX (Monumenta Musicae Sveciae: 6), 1969/70 Bonnie Hammar & Erling Lomnäs (score and parts); digitised edition: Levande Musikarv/Swedish Musical Heritage no. 2015 (2018)

Location for score and part material

Musik- och teaterbiblioteket

Literature

Mörner, C.-G. Stellan: Johan Wikmanson und die Brüder Silverstolpe; Einige Stockholmer Persönlichkeiten im Musikleben des Gustavianischen Zeitalters, (diss., Uppsala University), Stockholm 1952, pp. 176-181; a comparative analysis of Wikmanson's Quartets from a stylistic-historical perspective, pp. 182-192.

Description of work

1. Allegro di molto E minor 3/4 /:94 bars, 3/2 1 bar, 3/4 28 bars://:111 bars, 3/2 1 bar, 3/4 66 bars:/1 bar, in total 304 bars
2. Un poco adagio C major 4/4 (C) /:4 bars://:6 bars://:4 bars://:6 bars://:4 bars://:6 bars://:4 bars://:6 bars://:4 bars://:6 bars:/24 bars, in total 74 bars
3. Menuetto E minor 3/4/:10 bars://:16 bars:/, Trio E major/:8 bars:/1 bar, /:20 bars:/, 1 bar, Da capo il Menuetto ma senza replica e segue Finale 26 bars, Finale 26 bars, E major 18 bars, in total 128 bars [including the da Capo].
4. Prestissimo E minor 4/4 (C) /:53 bars:/76 bars:/, in total 129 bars

Media files

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