121, between late October and early November 1881 to fulfill a commission from the Hellmesberger Quartet.
He was thus forced to interrupt the work on the opera, and began to compose a quartet.
[2] The composition was supposed to premiere on 15 December 1881 in the Vienna Ringtheater, but because of the catastrophic conflagration in that building, the performance was postponed.
[2] The Czech première took place on 5 January 1884; the quartet was played by Ferdinand Lachner [de], Julius Raušer, Josef Krehan and Alois Neruda [cs].
94, written two years earlier, reappear in the spirited scherzo of the third movement.