Vladimir Sokalsky
Russian composer (1863–1919)
Vladimir Ivanovich Sokalsky (Ukrainian: Сокальський Володимир Іванович; Russian: Владимир Иванович Сокальский, 1863 - 1919) was a composer, musical critic, and lawyer.
Biography
Vladimir Ivanovich Sokalsky was born in the family of Ivan Petrovich Sokalsky, a Russian writer. He was born on 24 April 1863 at Heidelberg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden.
He graduated from Kharkiv musical school, a branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Community, where studied music from Peter Petrovich Sokalsky, and compositions from Iwan Knorr. He also graduated from Kharkiv University (the faculty of law). He was a conductor of an orchestra in opera-enterprise of Vasily Nikolaevich Andreev-Burlak. Since 1882 contributed as a musical reviewer of the "South country" newspaper, under a pseudonym Don-Diez. At meetings of the Kharkov branch of Russian musical society its products were executed, and the opera "Repka" was performed in Poltave, Smolensk, Tiflis and Kharkov. In 1902 he was a prosecutor at the Ust-Medveditsa district court. In the autumn of 1911, he became the Chairman of the Vologda district Court.
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