Intimate Miniatures

Intimate Miniatures (in Swedish: Intima miniatyrer), Op. 20, is a four-movement suite for string quartet written in 1938 by the Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson. Originally, the pieces were part of a longer, six-movement "lyrical suite" ("lyrisk svit") called Late Autumn Leaves (Senhöstblad), which Larsson had written to accompany a recitation of poems about fall by the Swedish writer Ola Hansson.

The Stockholm Quartet [sv] premiered Late Autumn Leaves on 20 November 1938, with the Swedish actor Ivar Kåge as narrator; the performers were: Ernst Törnqvist [sv] and Folke Reinholdson (violins), John Hylbom (viola), and Carl Christiansen [sv] (cello).

The Prim Quartet (Primkvartetten) premiered Intimate Miniatures at the Fylkingen venue in Stockholm, Sweden, on 25 October 1940.

The movements of Late Autumn Leaves (Senhöstblad) are as follows; † = Not included in Intimate Miniatures

The movements of Intimate Miniatures are as follows:

Note that Larsson reordered the movements.

The sortable table below lists commercially available recordings of Intimate Miniatures:

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