The quartet for four flutes op. 51 No. 3 (bis)* represents a respectful adaption of the quintet op. 51 No. 3 by Kuhlau which, in the original setting for flute, violin, two violas and violoncello – together with the quintets op. 51 No. 1 and No. 2 – was published in the year 1823 at Nikolaus Simrock in Bonn / Cologne.

It came quite early to some adaptions of these three quintets, which in the setting for two violas remind one of the late string quintets by Mozart. In 1828 the Kuhlau´s ten yea...