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Nikolai Sokolov

Russian composer and teacher (b. 14/26 March 1859 in Saint Petersburg; d. 27 March 1922 in Petrograd), born Nikolai Aleksandrovich Sokolov (Николай Александрович Соколов, Nikolai Aleksandrovič Sokolov, Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov).

After studying at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where Nikolai Rimskii 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 Dmitrii Shostakovich.

He also wrote four textbooks on harmony and counterpoint, and compiled a series of piano transcriptions of orchestral works by Russian composers, which included Tchaikovsky's The Storm and Fatum (1896).