Alexei Nikolajewitsch Werstowski
Alexei Nikolajewitsch Werstowski ( Russian Алексей Николаевич Верстовский ; * February 18 July / March 1, 1799 greg. In the Tambov Governorate ; † November 5 July / November 17, 1862 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian composer.
Werstowski studied at the Engineering Institute of Saint Petersburg and also took piano lessons with Daniel Steibelt and John Field and violin lessons with Louis Wilhelm Maurer . From 1825 he was music inspector at the Imperial Theater in Moscow, and from 1848 to 1860 he headed the theater office in Moscow.
The new building of the Bolshoi Theater was opened in 1825 with his and Aljabev's composition The Triumph of the Muses . His work Askold's Grave was the first Russian opera to be performed in the United States. In addition to more than 20 vaudevilles , he composed melodramas and plays , cantatas , choral works, songs and church music .
Web links
- Works by and about Aleksej N. Verstovskij in the catalog of the German National Library
- Article Alexei Nikolajewitsch Werstowski in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Werstovsky, Alexei Nikolajewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Верстовский, Алексей Николаевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tambov Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1862 |
| Place of death | Moscow |