Hellmesberger Quartet

It was founded by Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. and was the first permanent named String Quartet.

[citation needed] Violinist Leopold Jansa had started a string quartet in 1845.

The Quartet played an important role in Vienna's musical life through the performance of quartets from Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Franz Schubert, premiering several of Brahms' and Schubert's chamber works.

[3] It commissioned and premiered Antonín Dvořák's String Quartet No.

The programme of the opening concert on November 4, 1849 included Joseph Haydn's Quartet in C, Op.