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Spiering on the Spohr Gesangscene Concerto: "It was perfection of stye, technic, and beauty of tone combined: in short, it was such a noble performance and so satisfying in every way, that it will ever be a delightful remembrance."

Karel Halíř championed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, which was not popular in its early years. When Tchaikovsky attended a performance of the work by Halíř in Leipzig in 1888, he wrote in his diary, "It seems to me that this artist, who is gifted with wonderful beauty of tone, prodigious technique, passion, brilliance and power, must very soon take one of the first places among the violinists of our time."

After he moved to Berlin in 1894 he became an important part of the city's musical life. He was a professor at the Hochschule für Musik, concertmaster of the opera orchestra, the Königliche Kapelle, and leader of the Halir Quartet, which had a regular concert series that lasted sixteen years (1893-1909). He also led a piano trio group with his colleague Georg Schumann on piano and the cellist from his quartet, Hugo Dechert.