- Nicolai Alexeyevich Titov
Nicolai Alexeyevich Titov ( _ru. Николай Алексеевич Титов, born
St. Petersburg ,May 10 ,1800 - St. Petersburg,December 22 ,1875 ) was aRussia n composer.Titov's was a musical family; his father,
Alexey Nikolayevich Titov , was a composer, as were his uncle Sergei Titov (1770-1825) and his cousin Nicolai Sergeyevich Titov (1798-1843). Nicolai was never formally trained in music, and held a position in theRussian military from 1817 to 1867. He first composed in 1819, and later studied, though never formally, with Russianopera tic composersGlinka andDargomyzhsky .Titov composed works for piano and marches, but he is best known for his output of some 60 songs, for which he would be dubbed "the father of Russian song".
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Don Randel , "The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music". Harvard, 1996, p. 919.
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