The quartet had three movements (Intrada, Fuga, Capriccio). One of its themes, printed in the composer’s biographical note in Muzyk Wojskowy 3 (1927) under his photo, has been identified by Maciej Gołąb as the first theme of the fugue from String Trio, Op. 10, mov. II. It thus seems that Koffler at least partially recycled the material of his rejected quartet in a later piece. Zofia Lissa wrote about his early works as follows: ‘There was also a string quartet, whose first theme later served the composer as the leitmotif of his already serial piano trio [actually a string trio – ed.]. Cf. Z. Lissa, A Tribute to Józef Koffler, Poland’s First Dodecaphonist, typescript for a radio broadcast, 1963.