Abstract: In a known method, a quartz glass preform is produced by supplying a glass-forming base material in liquid form to an injection nozzle of a multi-nozzle flame deposition burner, vaporizing or gasifying the liquid glass-forming base material in the deposition burner, mixing the vaporized or gasified glass-forming base material with a gas containing oxygen under creation of SiO.sub.2 particles in a chemical reaction, deposition of the SiO.sub.2 particles on a substrate under creation of a porous preform and sintering of the preform. In this method, expensive devices such as pumps and ultrasonic vaporizers are needed for the vaporization of the liquid glass-forming base material; in addition, these devices are subject to mechanical wear and chemical attack and furthermore, they require extensive maintenance and due to their size result in a great height of construction.