The Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg published four string quartets, distributed over his lifetime. These were the String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 (1905), String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 10 (1908), String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30 (1927), and the String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37 (1936).

Librettist Stefan Anton George
Date of composition 1908 (1907-1908)
Premiered 1908, December 21st (Bösendorfer-Saal) in Vienna, Austria
First published 1909 (self-publication); 1911/1912 in Vienna by Universal Edition (parts/score respectively)
Dedicated to Meiner Frau (Mathilde Zemlinsky)
Type String Quartet
Tonality F-sharp Minor
Catalogue Op. 10
Approx. duration 30 minutes
Spoken language German
Instruments String Quartet
Autotranslations beta Arnold Schönberg: Quatuor à cordes n°2 en fa dièse mineur, Op. 10
Arnold Schönberg: Quartetto d'archi n. 2 in fa diesis minore, Op. 10
Arnold Schönberg: Streichquartett Nr. 2 fis-moll, Op. 10