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
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.
ordinary member of a choir when, with the assistance of the composer AlexeyVerstovsky, he was accepted by the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as a soloist. He...
Alexander Alyabyev and AlexeyVerstovsky), The Buzzing Man (Хлопотун, или Дело мастера боится, 1825, music by Alyabyev and Verstovsky), and How To Marry Your...
(1795–1829) Alexei Lvov (1798–1870) Marie von Stedingk (1799–1868) AlexeyVerstovsky (1799–1862) Katerina Maier (fl. c. 1800) Nikolai Titov (1800–1875)...
AlexeyVerstovsky etc. The repertoire of Nadezhda Repina was huge; she sang some 100 operatic roles, not counting roles in drama performances. Alexey...
including Vladimir Odoevsky, Alexander Alyabyev, Mikhail Vielgorsky, and AlexeyVerstovsky. Out of work as a composer, only two compositions survive to the present...
Other works based on the legend include: Pan Tvardovsky, an opera by AlexeyVerstovsky, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin (1828); Pan Tvardovsky, Zagoskin's short...
In the 19th century, Russian comic opera was further developed by AlexeyVerstovsky who composed more 30 opera-vaudevilles and 6 grand operas (most of...
Pierre Vermont (c. 1495 – c. 1533) Matthijs Vermeulen (1888–1967) AlexeyVerstovsky (1799–1862) Michael Vetter (1943–2013) Nicolaus Vetter (1666–1734)...
way that Ostrovsky lost all interest and asked the Maly inspector AlexeyVerstovsky to forget about it and wait for the publication of the next play which...
the composers whose music he published were Alexander Dargomyzhsky, AlexeyVerstovsky, Alexander Serov, Alexander Varlamov, Ivan Khandoshkin and Mikhail...
Beethoven, Gioacchino Rossini, Georges Bizet, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, AlexeyVerstovsky, Alexander Gurilyov, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai...
Denis Davydov (soldier-poet), Wilhelm Küchelbecker (Romantic poet), AlexeyVerstovsky (composer) and Alexander Griboyedov (writer). In 1819 he had 175 'souls'...
Leontovych's choir performed works by Russian composers Mikhail Glinka, AlexeyVerstovsky, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, as well as music by Stetsenko, Lysenko...
Pierre-Jean de Béranger). The Village Philosopher (vaudeville, with AlexeyVerstovsky and Maurer, 1823) The Nightingale (1827) The Mermaid and the Fisherman...
by the Russian composers Vasily Pashkevich, Yevstigney Fomin and AlexeyVerstovsky. However, the real birth of Russian opera came with Mikhail Glinka...
made a city holiday. The performance of the opera Askold's Tomb by AlexeyVerstovsky was the troupe's debut. The cast included contralto Nataliya Oleksandrivna...
This success was continued with the brilliant operatic career of AlexeyVerstovsky (1799–1862), who composed more 30 opera-vaudevilles and 6 grand-operas...
documented performance of an opera in Baku took place in May 1889 when AlexeyVerstovsky's opera Askold's grave was staged at a circus arena in Baku (on the...
especially famous for his roles in the operas Robert le diable by Giacomo Meyerbeer, Zampa by Louis Herold and Askold's Grave by AlexeyVerstovsky. v t e...
National Opera of Ukraine (NOU) on October 27, 1867; a staging of AlexeyVerstovsky's Askold's Grave. She was a resident leading contralto of the NOU from...
Novinsky Square was visited by Moscow music elites such as composers AlexeyVerstovsky and Alexander Alyabyev, and Alexander Vsevolozhskiy. Alexander Griboyedov...
entrepreneur Ferdinand Berger [uk] The company's first opera was AlexeyVerstovsky’s Askold's Grave, which was first performed on 6 November 1867 The...
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