Alexey Verstovsky

Alexey Verstovsky
Portrait of 20-year-old Alexey Verstovsky at the piano with the score of his first successful vaudeville Grandmother's Parrots (1819)
Born18 February 1799 (in Julian calendar), 1799 Edit this on Wikidata
Died5 November 1862 (in Julian calendar), 1862 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 63)
Moscow Edit this on Wikidata
Alma materImperial Moscow University (1833)
OccupationComposer
Spouse(s)Nadezhda Repina Edit this on Wikidata

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.