The Concerto was written in the summer of 1933. In May of that year Schoenberg had been forced to flee Berlin after the accession of the Nazi Party. He first went to Paris (where he reconverted from Lutheranism to the Judaism of his childhood). He spent the summer of 1933 with his wife and infant daughter in the French town of Arcachon, a seaside resort near Bordeaux, completing the Concerto there before leaving for permanent residence in America in October.

Date of composition 1933
Premiered 1934, September 26th in Prague, Czech Republic
First published 1968 in New York by Schirmer
Dedicated to "laut Brief an A. v. Webern vom 19. September 1933 dem Kolisch-Quartett gewidmet"
Type Concerto
Tonality B-flat
Instruments String Quartet
Orchestra
Autotranslations beta Arnold Schönberg: Concerto pour quatuor à cordes en si bémol
Arnold Schönberg: Concerto per quartetto d'archi in si bemolle
Arnold Schönberg: Konzert für Streichquartett b-