1. Allegretto
2. Romance
3. Menuetto - Trio - Menuetto da capo
4. Scherzando poco presto - Adagio

• 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: 16 min
• Detailed duration: 1. 5'56'', 2. 3'47'', 3. 2'28'', 4. 3'32'' 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) (Nils-Erik Sparf, vl; Per Sandklef, vl; Björn Sjögren, vla; Bengt Ericson, vc)

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. 2016 (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. Allegretto B-flat major 6/8 55 bars, E-flat major 16 bars/:10 bars:/4 bars, B-flat major 71 bars, in total 156 bars
2. Romance E-flat major 4/4 (C) 77 bars
3. Menuetto B-flat major 3/4 /:8 bars://:10 bars:/, Trio /:7 bars://:13 bars:/1 bar, Menuetto da capo 18 bars, in total 57 bars [including the da capo].
4. Scherzando poco presto B-flat major 2/4 186 bars, Adagio 2 bars, in total 188 bars