• NĚMEC, František: soloist, vl
• KRÁL, Jan: soloist, va
• TRÄG, Anton: soloist, vc
• KÖCKERT, Adolph: soloist, vl

Bohemia 20/2/1851 published a report announcing that the year’s Quartet Soirées would take place in Count Clam’s Palace on the successive Mondays of 10th, 17th and 24th March. The programmes would contain ‘mainly items of classical chamber music literature and will therefore be interesting’. They would include two compositions by the ‘immortal Mendelssohn and a quintet by Gade, in which genre this ingenious composer will be heard here for the first time.’ An entrance card to all three events cost 2 fl. Individual events were 50 kr and were available from the music shop of J. Hoffmann.

The date, time and venue of the third Soirée appeared in the Tagesanzeiger text of Bohemia 23/3/1851.

The Czech periodical Lumír 20/3/1851 reported the date and time of this event, noted the performers in the quartet and the works to be given.

A review, signed ‘V.’, of this event was published by Bohemia 27/3/1851. This began by noting that in the opening work by Spohr, the effect of the first two movements in particular was very uplifting, exhibiting ‘a noble poise and beautiful form’ that was characteristic of the composer’s ‘amiable personality and artistic mastery’. The quartet was however thought to be overshadowed by Beethoven’s String Quartet Op.59 no.2, which made up the second number of the programme. Commentary upon this work made up the greater part of the review text, with the critic drawing attention to a particular stylistic feature in each of the four movements of the composition, and then discussing the composer’s use of tonality in the work as a whole and across the set of the three op.59 quartets. Mendelssohn’s Quintet was also praised, with the reviewer discussing the importance of works from the composer’s unknown output being performed in public and noting that in its next concert the local Cecilia Society would perform his newest symphony.