Nicolai Alexeyevich Titov was a Russia

Russia

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n composer.

Titov's was a musical family; his father, Alexey Nikolayevich Titov

Alexey Nikolayevich Titov

Alexey Nikolayevich Titov , was a Russian composer and violinist.Titov was born and died in St. Petersburg. Alongside his musical career, Titov was a major general in the Russian cavalry. His music, most of which is for the stage , was primarily written for local St. Petersburg theater and dance...

, 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 the Russian military from 1817 to 1867. He first composed in 1819, and later studied, though never formally, with Russian opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

tic composers Glinka and Dargomyzhsky.

Titov composed works for piano and march

March (music)

A march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band. In mood, marches range from the moving death march in Wagner's Götterdämmerung to the brisk military marches of John...

es, but he is best known for his output of some 60 songs, for which he would be dubbed "the father of Russian song".

Source

• Don Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard, 1996, p. 919.