Daniil Kashin

Daniil Nikititsch Kaschin (Russian: Даниил Никитич Кашин, romanized: Daniil Nikitich Kashin; 1769 – December 1841) was a Russian composer, pianist, conductor, and folk-song collector. Kaschin was born the son of a serf of General Bibikov. He was a student of Giuseppe Sarti in Bessarabia in 1788. In 1790, he performed two of his own works in Moscow with a serf orchestra; Kashin went on to direct this ensemble in the 1790s.