Nikolay Sokolov

Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov was a Russian composer of classical music and a member of the circle that grew around the publisher Mitrofan Belyayev.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article on Nikolay Sokolov (composer).

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Nicholas Alexandrovich Sokolov, a composer born in St. Petersburg in 1859, pursued his musical education at the Conservatorium there from 1877 to 1885, notably as a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, according to Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1908). His output includes orchestral works such as an ‘Elegy’ (op. 4) and incidental music for Shakespeare’s ‘Winter’s Tale.’ He also composed three string quartets (opp. 7, 14, and 20), numerous chamber pieces including eight for violin and pianoforte and six for violoncello and pianoforte, and a significant body of vocal music, comprising seven a cappella choruses, four choruses for female voices, and approximately eighty songs. Sokolov also created a ballet titled ‘The Wild Swans,’ as detailed in Grove’s Dictionary (1922). He was a teacher to other musicians, with Nikolai Fedorovitch Findeisen studying under him at the Conservatorium, as recorded in A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1905), and Boleslas Grodzki also listed as his pupil in The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924). Furthermore, Victor Ewald, a Russian civil engineer, was a pupil of Sokolov in music, composing various chamber works including a string and a wind quintet (The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1924). Sokolov is also mentioned among “contemporary song-writers” in Russia, whose work, though varying in merit, contributed to the serious regard for both folk and art-song in the country, as noted in Grove’s Dictionary (1922).