67, was composed by Johannes Brahms in the summer of 1875 and published by the firm of Fritz Simrock.
[2] It has four movements: Brahms composed the work in Ziegelhausen, near Heidelberg, and dedicated it to Professor Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann, an amateur cellist who had hosted Brahms on a visit to Utrecht.
Brahms was at the time the artistic director of the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.
Engelmann was rather puzzled by how the quartet was thus configured, but appreciated its dedication to him all the same.
...It's no longer a question of a forceps delivery; but of simply standing by.