Maurice Ernst

Hungarian journalist (b. 1873 in Budapest; d. 18 May 1955 in Esher, Surrey), later known as Maurice Ernest.

From the early 1890s he was the London correspondent for the Vienna newspaper Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung. He subsequently married and settled in England, anglicising his surname from Ernst to Ernest.

Correspondence with Tchaikovsky

One letter from Tchaikovsky to Maurice Ernst has survived, dating from 1893, and has been translated into English on this website:

• Letter 4951a – 15/27 June 1893, from Paris

One letter from Ernst to the composer, dating from 31 May/12 June 1893, is preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a⁴, No. 6021).

Bibliography

• Čajkovskis Brief vom 3./15. Juni 1893 an den Journalisten Maurice Ernst in London (2003)

External Links

• VIAF