In-text title (and titlepage) on left side in double-sided document

Question

I'm trying to make a double-sided document begin on the left side. Per default the in-text title/titlepage is always moved to the right side.

Could the titles be redefined in a double-sided document and be placed on the left side?

For the article and report classes this solution (declaring a command \cleartoleftpage) sort of works with the drawback of inserting an empty page before the title, which isn't optimal in the beginning of the document.

Summing up what I've tried so far:

With this preamble

\documentclass[twoside]{article} %also trying with: report, book
\makeatletter
%From Martin Scharrer♦'s answer: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/11709/172164
\newcommand*{\cleartoleftpage}{%
    \clearpage
    \if@twoside
    \ifodd\c@page
    \hbox{}\newpage
    \if@twocolumn
    \hbox{}\newpage
    \fi
    \fi
    \fi
}
\makeatother
\title{Title}

\begin{document}
\cleartoleftpage
\maketitle
\end{document}

I tried using \cleartoleftpage before \maketitle with following documentclasses and results:

• article: inserts empty page, title on the left (sort of works, with undesirabe empty page)
• report: inserts empty page, title on the left (sort of works, with undesirabe empty page)
• book: inserts two empty pages, title on the right (doesn't work at all)

So clearly this doesn't work, even in the cases where the title appears on the left side there is an unsatisfying empty page in the beginning of the document.

Answer 1

The titlepage environment sets the page number to 1, you need to remove this setting.

\documentclass[twoside]{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox} % for \patchcmd

\usepackage{showframe,lipsum} % for debugging

\makeatletter
% remove the page number setting
\patchcmd{\titlepage}{\setcounter {page}\@ne}{}{}{}
\makeatother

\title{Title}
\author{Author}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{empty}\mbox{}

\begin{titlepage}
\maketitle
\end{titlepage}

\lipsum[1-30]

\end{document}