Intimate Miniatures
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| Intimate Miniatures | |
|---|---|
| Suite by Lars-Erik Larsson | |
 The composer | |
| Native name | Intima miniatyrer |
| Opus | 20 |
| Composed | 1938 |
| Publisher | Gehrmans Musikförlag (1962) |
| Duration | Approx. 15 minutes[1] |
| Movements | 4 |
| Premiere | |
| Date | 20 November 1938 |
| Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Performers | Stockholm Quartet |
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 premiered Late Autumn Leaves on 20 November 1938, with the Swedish actor Ivar Kåge as narrator; the performers were: Ernst Törnqvist and Folke Reinholdson (violins), John Hylbom (viola), and Carl Christiansen (cello).
The Prim Quartet (Primkvartetten) premiered Intimate Miniatures at the Fylkingen venue in Stockholm,[2] Sweden, on 25 October 1940.[3]
