Nikolai Sokolov

Nikolai Alexandrovich Sokolov was a Russian composer and musicologist born in Saint Petersburg. He graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he was a student of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Sokolov was an active participant in the Belyayev circle, a group of musicians who gathered at the home of Mitrofan Belyayev.

He served as a teacher at the Court Chapel and the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His pedagogical influence was significant, with a roster of notable students that included Alexander Tcherepnin, Yuri Shaporin, Pavel Ivanov-Radkevich, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Sokolov's personal life included his marriage to Eugenia Kudryavtseva, with whom he had three children: Ivan, Mikhail, and Maria. He died in Petrograd in 1922. Originally buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery, his remains were transferred to the Necropolis of Masters of Arts in 1936.

His musical works include the ballet The Wild Swans (based on Hans Christian Andersen), incidental music for William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, and two serenades for orchestra. He also contributed to collective works by the Belyayev circle, such as the Polka for the Fridays string quartet collection (co-written with Lyadov and Glazunov) and the Joke quadrille for piano.

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