The example of
Schuppanzigh, and of the four brothers Moralt, suggested to Zeugheer the idea of attempting the same with his friends in Munich, as "das Quartett Gebrüder Herrmann". Zeugheer was leader; Joseph Wex of Immenstadt, second violin; Carl Baader, viola; and Joseph Lidel (grandson of
Andreas Lidel, the eminent performer on the
baryton), violoncello. They started Aug. 34, 1824, for the south, and gave performances at the towns of south Germany and Switzerland, and along the
Rhine to the
Netherlands and
Belgium. In the spring of 1826 they played in Paris, before
Cherubini and
Pierre Baillot, and gave a public performance assisted by
Henriette Sontag and
Alexandre Boucher with his sons. They first performed in Paris Spohr's double quartet in D minor, the second quartet being played by Boucher and his three sons.
In Britain From Boulogne the quartet crossed the Channel; in England they seem to have been successful, at
Dover,
Ramsgate, and especially at
Brighton, where they resided for five months. They gave concerts throughout the South and West of England, and in
Ireland from
Cork to
Dublin, where they arrived in November 1827. Early in 1828 they proceeded by
Belfast to
Glasgow,
Edinburgh and London. In London they had only a few engagements in private houses; Wex retired ill, and the quartet was broken up till a new violinist was found in Anton Popp of
Würzburg. The concerts begun again with a series of six at Liverpool in the summer of 1829, and were continued through the northern counties. But in the spring of 1830 the "brothers" had had enough of a roving life. Zeugheer and Baader settled at Liverpool, Lidel and Popp at Dublin. Zeugheer resided in Liverpool till his death, Baader till his retirement in 1869. Zeugheer's quartet was only the second ever to perform in England, and were the first to play in England any but the first six of Beethoven's quartets. In many towns they found that no one knew what a quartet was. ==Career as a conductor==