- Born: 1 June 1804, Smolensk Governorate, Russia
- Died: 15 February 1857, Berlin, Germany
Works
- A Life for the Tsar (Жизнь за царя) (1836) ***
- Ruslan and Lyudmila (Руслан и Людмила) (1842) **
Mikhail Glinka
"The history of music is not simply the history of masterpieces… Posterity is not always fair and can be fickle, and our keenest hope is that the curiosity of the reader will be attracted to a number of works that merit more than a passing reference in music history." – Vincent Giroud
The Opera Scribe 