Dates and listening details already known to Music Journals.
Composed 1884–1888
Preliminary sketches and thematic material date from c. 1884–1885, while the primary composition was written between late 1887 and March 1888; the work later underwent revisions in 1893, 1896, and through 1910.
Composed 1945
composed during the summer of 1945; Bartók left the final 17 measures in shorthand/unorchestrated before his death on September 26, 1945, which were completed by Tibor Serly