Lvov, Aleksey Feodorovich (1798–1870)

Russian composer. He studied with his father, Feodor Lvov, an authority on church music and folk song, who succeeded Dmitri Bortniansky as director of the Imperial Chapel in 1825. His son, who rose to high rank in the army and became adjutant to Nicholas I, succeeded him there 1837–61. He was a good violinist and founded a string quartet at St Petersburg. He became deaf and retired in 1867.

Works Opera Bianca e Gualtiero (1844), Undine (after Fouqué, 1847), and The Bailiff (1854).

Other much church music; violin concerto; fantasy The Duel for violin and cello; Russian Imperial hymn ‘God save the Tsar’ (1833), quoted by Tchaikovsky in his 1812 Overture.