Alexey Verstovsky
Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky (Russian: Алексéй Никола́евич Верстóвский) (March 1 [O.S. February 18] 1799 – November 17 [O.S. November 5] 1862) was a Russian composer, musical bureaucrat and rival of Mikhail Glinka.
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Portrait of 20-year-old Alexey Verstovsky at the piano with the score of his first successful vaudeville Grandmother's Parrots (1819) | |
| Born | 18 February 1799 (in Julian calendar), 1799 |
| Died | 5 November 1862 (in Julian calendar), 1862 (aged 63) Moscow |
| Alma mater | Imperial Moscow University (1833) |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Spouse(s) | Nadezhda Repina |
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