Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813) died on January 17, 1869.

January 17, 1869

Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813) died on January 17, 1869.

Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky was a 19th-century Russian composer. He bridged the gap in Russian opera composition between Mikhail Glinka and the later generation of The Five and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.