Vasily Polikarpowitsch Titov
Wassili Polikarpowitsch Titow ( Russian Василий Поликарпович Титов , scientific transliteration Vasilij Polikarpovič Titov ; * around 1650; † 1710 in Moscow ) was a Russian composer.
Titov worked as a singer and conductor at the Moscow Tsar's court . He was the first important Russian author of polyphonic sacred choral works. In addition to solo songs, he composed sacred concerts and psalms and set the rhyming psaltery and the church calendar of the poet and theologian Simeon Polotski to music .
Web links
- Titov on music.edu.ru (Russian)
- Sheet music and audio files by Wassili Polikarpowitsch Titow in the International Music Score Library Project
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| SURNAME | Titov, Wassili Polikarpowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Титов, Василий Поликарпович (Russian); Titov, Vasilij Polikarpovič (scientific transliteration) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1650 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1710 |
| Place of death | Moscow |