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).

Date of composition 1936
Premiered 1937, January 8th (Josiah Royce Hall, University of California at Los Angeles) in Los Angeles, CA, United States
First published 1939
Dedicated to To the ideal patron of chamber music Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and to the ideal interpreters of it The Kolisch Quartet
Type String Quartet
Catalogue Op. 37
Approx. duration 30 minutes
Instruments String Quartet
Autotranslations beta Arnold Schönberg: Quatuor à cordes n°4, Op. 37
Arnold Schönberg: Quartetto d'archi n. 4, Op. 37
Arnold Schönberg: Streichquartett Nr. 4, Op. 37