Mikhail Matveyevich Sokolovsky (russian: Михаи́л Матве́евич Соколо́вский (1756 – after 1795) was a late 18th-century

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, conductor and

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ist. Sokolovsky played the violin in the

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of the Maddox Theatre in

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. It is known that he also taught singing at the

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. The music of the renowned-in-its-day opera ''

The miller who was a wizard, a cheat and a matchmaker ''The miller who was a wizard, a cheat and a matchmaker'' (Russian: Мельник – колдун, обманщик и сват 'Melnik – koldun, obmanshchik i svat'' – is a Russian ballad opera in three acts with a libretto by Alexander Abl ...

'' (''Мельник–колдун, обманщик и сват'') to the text by Aleksandr Ablesimov (Moscow, 1779;

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, circa 1795) is attributed to him. Only part of the score survived but

Nikolai Tcherepnin Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (Russian: Николай Николаевич Черепнин; – 26 June 1945) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was born in Saint Petersburg and studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at t ...

completed the missing portions in 1925, enabling the work to be revived. Sokolovsky's contemporary, composer

Yevstigney Fomin Yevstigney Ipat'yevich Fomin (russian: Евстигне́й Ипа́тьевич Фоми́н) (born St. Petersburg – died St. Petersburg c ) was a Russian opera composer of Ukrainian originShuliar, Orest: History of Vocal Art. Ivano- ...

later revised the music of the opera adding an

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to it. Under the reign of autocratic Czar

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, verses of Sokolovsky that were critical of Nicholas's predecessors were often sung at anti-Nicholas rallies.

Bibliography

*Sokolova, A. "Fomin", the article in ''Tvorcheskie portrety kompozitorov''. Moskva: Muzyka, 1989, p. 360-362. *Abraham, Gerald. ''The Concise Oxford History of Music''. Oxford, 1979, p. 479-481. * Taruskin, Richard. "Fomin, Yevstigney Ipat'yevich" in ''The

New Grove Dictionary of Opera ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' is an encyclopedia of opera, considered to be one of the best general reference sources on the subject. It is the largest work on opera in English, and in its printed form, amounts to 5,448 pages in four volu ...

'' (editor,

Stanley Sadie Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the '' Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (1980), which was publ ...

). London, 1992 .

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