The long The history of the ensemble now extends over seventy years. In 1946, the violinist Dušan Pandula founded the Hába Quartet in Prague, which at that time already focussed on the collaboration of important contemporary composers and, above all, the most important composer of microtonal music - Alois Hába, the eponym of the ensemble - the twelve of his seventeen quartets dedicated to the Hába Quartet. In 1968, after Dušan Pandulas moved to the FRG, the quartet disbanded, but sixteen years later in 1984, he was re-founded by him in Frankfurt, this time with his pupil Peter Zelienka. The quartet sees itself as a direct successor and bearer of the long-standing Hába quartet tradition. The ensemble is characterized by a repertoire encompassing all stylistic epochs, which also includes rarely performed works. This versatility has resulted in intensive concerts both at home and abroad, in CD and radio recordings, and in major festival festivals. a. in Salzburg, Graz, Munich, Berlin, Prague, Beijing, Shanghai, Warsaw and Pärnu proven time and again. During a concert tour to China in 2014, the Hába Quartet performed with great success at the "Beijing Festival for Modern Music", in Shanghai and Guangzhou. There, the ensemble also devoted an intensive teaching at local music academies. In 2015, the complete recording of the string quartets by Alois Hába, recorded by the Hába Quartet, was released on the CD label NEOS.