The Quartet was not issued during Bruckner's life, since it concerned a sample of capability during his study period at Kitzler. Bruckner did not bequeath a score of it as he did for the later Four Orchestral Pieces. The Kitzler-Studienbuch was wound up in the legacy of Bruckner's friend Josef Schalk in Munich, in which the Quartet was discovered in 1950 by the Koeckert Quartet. The Koeckert Quartet premiered the Quartet on 15 February 1951 in a Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor broadcast, and performed it on 8 March 1951 in a concert in Hamburg.
| Date of composition | 1862 (28 July 1862) in Linz, Austria |
| Premiered | 1851, February 15th in Berlin, Germany |
| First published | 1955 |
| Type | String Quartet |
| Tonality | C Minor |
| Catalogue | WAB 111 |
| Approx. duration | 24 minutes |
| Instruments | String Quartet |
| Autotranslations beta |
Anton Bruckner: Quatuor à cordes en do mineur, WAB 111 Anton Bruckner: Quartetto d'archi in do minore, WAB 111 Anton Bruckner: Streichquartett c-moll, WAB 111 |