Sokolov

(sok-o-loff'), Nicholas Alex- androvitch, compr b. St. Petersburg, Mar. 26, 1859. Pupil of Johan nsen and Rimsky-Korsakov at St. P. Cons.; teacher of theory at Imperial Chapl 1886, at Cons. 1896; composed string quartets, symphonies, works for vln., pf., and voices, music to Shakespeare’s Winter's Tale and to A. Tolstoi’s Don Juan Soloviev (sol-o-vyof'), Nicolai Theopemptovitch, compr. critic, b Petrosadovsk, prov. of Olonetz, Ru ia, May 9, 1846. Pupil of Zaremba at Imp. Cons.; prof, of harmony and mus. hist, at St. Petersburg Cons.; counsellor of state; critic and editor of lexicon: composed operas {Cordelia 1885), overture on a national theme, symph. poem Ru es et Mongols; completed Serov’s Power of the Demon.