Background
Sokolov was born in Saint St. Petersburg in 1859.
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Nicholas Sokolov
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Career
A student of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, he taught Alexander Tcherepnin, Dmitri Shostakovich and Yuri Shaporin at the Saint St. Petersburg Conservatory. He was the posthumous dedicatee of Shostakovich"s Theme and Variations in B-flat major for orchestra, Operation 3. Sokolov"s recorded works include his contributions to several collaborative projects of the "Belyayev circle", including the set of character pieces for string quartet known as Les Vendredis as well as a set of variations for piano and orchestra on a Russian theme.
Other works include a Quintet, Operation
3, also arranged for string orchestra as a serenade. Final chorus from Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy"s Don Juan, Operation
5. Choruses for women"s voices, Operation
12 (published 1892); piano variations, Operation 25; Variations on a popular Russian theme for string quartet (published 1899).
There are also three string quartets, in F major, A major and Doctorate minor, and a string trio in Doctorate minor, his Operation 45 (published in 1916).
All of these were published by Belyayev"s firm.
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