Mikhail Sokolovsky
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Mikhail Matveyevich Sokolovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Матве́евич Соколо́вский, born 1756, died –date unknown) was a Russian opera composer, conductor and violinist of the second half of the 18th century.
He was a violinist in the orchestra of the Medox Theatre in Moscow (see Nikolai Sheremetev). It is known that Sokolovsky also taught singing at the university. The music of the famous opera The Miller who was a Wizard, a Cheat and a Match-maker (Мельник - колдун, обманщик и сват — Melnik - koldun, obmanshchik i svat to the text by Alexander Ablesimov 1779 Moscow, c.1795 St Petersburg) is attributed to him. Later the composer Yevstigney Fomin revised the music of the opera adding an overture to it.
[edit] Bibliography
- Sokolova, A.: Fomin, the article in "Tvorcheskie portrety kompozitorov", Moskva, Muzyka, 1989, p.360-362
- Abraham, Gerald: The Conscience Oxford History of Music, Oxford 1979, p.479-481
- Fomin, Yevstigney Ipat'yevich by Richard Taruskin, in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
