The String Quartet in E major, JS 184, is a four-movement chamber piece for two violins, viola, and cello written in June 1885 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It is the first of Sibelius's four string quartets. The quartet appears in the same sketchbook as two other brief pieces for string quartet: first, the Molto moderatoScherzo (JS 134), which is Sibelius's earliest piece in the genre; and second, a fragmentary [Scherzo] in B minor (without catalogue marking; completed by Kalevi Aho).
The quartet is in four movements:
The piece was published posthumously in 1991 by .
The Sibelius Academy Quartet made the world premiere studio recording of the E major quartet for Finlandia in 1988. The table below lists this and other commercially available recordings: