Eugen Zabel
German music critic and journalist (b. 23 December 1851 [N.S.] in Königsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia]; d. 26 February 1924 in Berlin).
In his youth Zabel wrote poetry, and later, after his move to Berlin, he worked as a journalist and writer, and was the author of a novel about Catherine the Great, essays on Lev Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, and a biography of Anton Rubinstein (in which connection he wrote to Tchaikovsky in 1892). Zabel established close personal contacts with the Russian Empire and undertook several extensive journeys through the country, which he also described in his writings.
Correspondence with Tchaikovsky
One letter from Tchaikovsky to Eugen Zabel has survived, dating from 1892, and has been translated into English on this website:
- Letter 4696 – 24 May/5 June 1892, from Klin
One letter from Zabel to the composer, dating from 18/30 May 1892, is preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, No. 4607).
Bibliography
- Anton Rubinstein. Ein Künstlerleben (1892)
- П. Чайковский об А. Г. Рубинштейн (1893)
- П. Чайковский об А. Г. Рубинштейн (1893)
