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String Quartet in E-flat major
String Quartet in E-flat major
by Jean Sibelius
	The composer (c. 1885–1888)
Catalogue	JS 184
Composed	1885
Publisher	Fazer [fi] (1991)
Duration	19 mins.
Movements	4

The String Quartet in E-flat major, JS 184, is a four-movement chamber piece for two violins, viola, and cello^[3] written in June 1885 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It is the first of Sibelius's four string quartets. The quartet appears in the same sketchbook as two other brief pieces for string quartet: first, the Molto moderato – Scherzo (JS 134), which is Sibelius's earliest piece in the genre; and second, a fragmentary [Scherzo] in B minor (without catalogue marking; completed by Kalevi Aho).^[4]

Structure

The E-flat major quartet is in four movements, as follows:

Allegro
Andante molto
Scherzo. Allegretto
Vivace

The piece was published posthumously in 1991 by Fazer Music [fi].^[1]

Discography

The Sibelius Academy Quartet made the world premiere studio recording of the E-flat major quartet for Finlandia in 1988.^[1] The table below lists this and other commercially available recordings:

No.	Quartet	Violin I	Violin II	Viola	Cello	Runtime^[a]	Rec.^[b]	Recording venue	Label	Ref.
1	Sibelius Academy	Seppo Tukiainen [fi]	Erkki Kantola [fi]	Veikko Kosonen	Arto Noras	18:48	1988	Järvenpää Hall [fi]	Finlandia	^[c]
2	Tempera [fi]	Laura Vikman	Silva Koskela	Tiila Kangas	Ulla Lampela	17:41	2004	Länna Church, Uppland [sv]	BIS	^[d]

Notes, references, and sources

Notes

^ All runtimes are official, as printed on CD or LP liner notes.
^ Refers to the year in which the performers recorded the work; this may not be the same as the year in which the recording was first released to the general public.
^ Sibelius Academy–Finlandia (4509–95851–2) 1992
^ Tempera–BIS (CD–1376) 2005

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Dahlström 2003, p. 617.
^ Dahlström 2003, p. 616.
^ Dahlström 2003, pp. 616–617.
^ Barnett 2007, pp. 11–12.

Sources

Barnett, Andrew (2007). Sibelius. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11159-0.
Dahlström, Fabian [in Swedish] (2003). Jean Sibelius: Thematisch-bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke [Jean Sibelius: A Thematic Bibliographic Index of His Works] (in German). Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel. ISBN 3-7651-0333-0.