Nikolay Sokolov
Russian composer and teacher (b. 14/26 March 1859 in Saint Petersburg; d. 27 March 1922 in Petrograd), born Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (Николай Александрович Соколов).
After studying at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov was one of his tutors, Sokolov became a teacher at the Imperial Court Chapel in 1886. Ten years later he was appointed to the staff of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he became a professor in 1908, and later taught Dmitry Shostakovich.
He also wrote four textbooks on harmony and counterpoint, and compiled a series of piano transcriptions of orchestral works by Russian composers, including Tchaikovsky.
Sokolov's Arrangements of Works by Tchaikovsky
Sokolov was commissioned by Beliaeff in Leipzig to make arrangements of three of Tchaikovsky's works that were published posthumously:
- The Storm, overture to Ostrovsky's drama, Op. 76, TH 36 (1896)
- Fatum, symphonic fantasia, Op. 77, TH 41 (1897)
- The Voyevoda, symphonic ballad, Op. 78, TH 54 (1897).
