Joseph Christian von Zedlitz
Tchaikovsky Research
Austrian dramatist and poet (b. 28 February 1790 [N.S.] at Javorník; d. 16 March 1862 in Vienna [N.S.], also known as Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz or Baron von Zedlitz.
Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Zedlitz
Zedlitz's ballad Die nächtliche Heerschau (1827), in a Russian translation by Vasily Zhukovsky (1783-1852), was set by Tchaikovsky in his lost romance Midnight Review (Ночной парад), composed while he was a student in 1863 or 1864.
