Ukrainian composer, pianist and music critic, son of Ivan Sokalsky and nephew of Petro Sokalsky.
Biography.
Born in Heidelberg, Germany, he was a lawyer (judge) by profession. He studied at Kharkiv University and studied piano at the Kharkiv Branch of the Russian Musical Society: music theory with I. Knorr, piano with I. Slatin. His first compositions were related to the arrangement of plays for dramatic performances in the Mikhail Starytsky's troupe. He worked as a piano teacher, conductor, and concertmaster at the Kharkiv Opera House, and participated in concerts of the Music Society as a conductor of his own works.
Since 1882, he worked as a correspondent for the newspaper "Yuzhnyi Krai" (Kharkiv), where he published his "Musical Notes". He wrote articles for the Izvestia of the St. Petersburg Society of Musical Collections (pseudonym "Don Diez").
He died in Sevastopol in 1919.
Works.
He composed symphonic works ("Dramatic Fantasy", "Eastern March", "Rise of the Slavic Falcons"), a children's opera "Ripka" (1900), a symphony in G minor (1892, first performed in 1894) based on Ukrainian folk songs, smaller works for orchestra, an elegy for cello and piano, solo chants, and piano pieces.
