Zabel, Albert Heinrich
(1834–1910)
Zabel (Tsabel'), Albert Heinrich (2–22–1834, Berlin; 2–3/16–1910, P.). German harpist, pedagogue, and comp. On the recommendation of Meyerbeer was accepted as a student at the Berlin Institut für Kirchenmusik. Concertized in Germany, England, and Russia, then settled in P. (1855), where he was a soloist at the Mariinskiy Theater and taught at the P. Cons. (1862–1904). Among his pupils were Polomarenko, Pomazansky, and Val'ter-Kyune. Edited the harp parts in P. Chaikovsky's Swan Lake and…