Repeatedly, excellent young composers have dedicated their works to the Faust Quartet. In 2004/2005, the Quartet staged two new compositions for the first time. These included the 2005 debut performance of Ludger Vollmer's Shakespeare inspired string quartet "My Love is like a fever" at the "Heidelberger Frühling" and the string quartet "Lost" by Carsten Hennig, which was first performed at Rome's Villa Massimo in 2004.

The Quartet is named after the central figure of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's drama "Faust". It was also Goethe who said of string quartets: "You listen to four sensible persons conversing".