Brahms composed the work in Ziegelhausen, near Heidelberg, and dedicated it to Professor Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann, an amateur cellist who had hosted Brahms on a visit to Utrecht. Brahms was at the time the artistic director of the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. The work is light-hearted and cheerful, "a useless trifle," as he put it, "to avoid facing the serious countenance of a symphony", referring to the work on his first symphony which debuted a week later.
| Date of composition | 1875 |
| Premiered | 1876, October 30th in Berlin, Germany |
| First published | 1876 |
| Type | String Quartet |
| Tonality | B-flat Major |
| Catalogue | Op. 67 |
| Approx. duration | 36 minutes |
| Instruments |
Viola
Cello 2x Violin |
| Autotranslations beta |
Johannes Brahms: Quatuor à cordes n°3 en si bémol majeur, Op. 67 Johannes Brahms: Quartetto d'archi n. 3 in si bemolle maggiore, Op. 67 Johannes Brahms: Streichquartett Nr. 3 B-dur, Op. 67 |