In October 1849 he played in his first private performance in the apartment of the horn player Joseph Rudolf Lewy in Dresden together with the horn players Lorenz and Schlitterlau. Robert Schumann was present at this performance where they performed Schumann's Concert Piece for 4 Horns and Orchestra Op. 86. This event was certainly the trigger for Hübler, with his profound knowledge of the horn, to compose his own work for this instrumentation. In 1856 he completed his concert piece for 4 horns ...