At 18 of the Popular Concerts at least, Clara Schumann performed along with Joachim, Zerbini and

Piatti, presumably playing piano quartets (without second violin), or sometimes piano trios (for
piano, violin, and cello). (The programs of those concerts very likely also included string quartets in
which she of course did not play, as Ries is also listed.) A favorite piece of Clara's was Brahms's Piano
Quartet in A major. She wrote to Brahms 27 February 1882 from London that the piece had received
"much applause".[46] About a performance of it in Liverpool 11 February she had written in her diary
that it was "warmly received, much to my surprise as the public here is far less receptive than that in
London."[47] In January 1867 there had been a tour to Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland, by Joachim,
Clara, her oldest daughter Marie, Ries, Zerbini, Piatti, two English sisters "Miss Pyne," one a singer,
and a Mr. Saunders who managed all the arrangements. Marie Schumann wrote home from
Manchester that in Edinburgh Clara "was received with tempestuous applause and had to give an
encore, so had Joachim. Piatti, too, is always tremendously liked."[48]

Joachim had extensive correspondence with both Clara and Brahms, as Brahms greatly valued
Joachim's opinion of his new compositions. In 1860 Brahms and
Joachim jointly wrote a manifesto against the "progressive" music of the
'New German' School, in reaction to the polemics of Brendel's Neue
Zeitschrift für Musik. This manifesto, a volley in the War of the
Romantics, had originally few (four[13]) signers (more later) and met
with a mixed reception, being heavily derided by followers of
Wagner.[49]

On 10 May 1863 Joachim

married the contralto
Amalie Schneeweiss
(stage name: Amalie
Weiss) (1839–99).
Amalie gave up her own
promising career as an
opera singer and gave
birth to six children. She
continued to perform in Joseph and Amalie Joachim
oratorios and to give
lieder recitals. In 1865
The famous Joachim Quartet. From left to right:
Joachim quit the service of the King of Hanover in
Robert Hausmann (cello), Josef Joachim (1st
violin), Emanuel Wirth (viola) and Karel Halíř (2nd
protest, when the Intendant (artistic director) of the
violin) Opera refused to advance one of the orchestral players
(Jakob Grün) because of the latter's Jewish birth.[50]
In 1866, as a result of the Austro-Prussian war, in
which Prussia and its capital Berlin became the dominant German state and city, Joachim moved to
Berlin, where he was invited to help found, and to become the first director of, a new department of
the Royal Academy of Music, concerned with musical performance and called the Hochschule für
ausübende Tonkunst.

On Good Friday, 10 April 1868, Joachim and his wife joined their friend, Johannes Brahms, in the
celebration of one of Brahms' greatest triumphs, the first complete performance of his German
Requiem at the Bremen Cathedral. Amalie Joachim sang "I Know that My Redeemer Liveth" and