Aleksandr Sokiryansky (, ) was a Soviet Moldavian composer and musicologist.

Biography

He was born in on 9 January 1937

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, in a Jewish family. During the

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years, he lived with the mother in the evacuation in

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, where his younger sister died. His father died in the

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. After the war, he returned with his mother to Cherkasy. After graduation, he entered the Poltava Music School in the violin class. After serving in the

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, he returned to Cherkasy, where he worked as a violinist in the orchestra of the Musical and Dramatic Theater. T. G. Shevchenko. In 1964–1969 he studied at the

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Art Institute named after G. Muzicescu in the composition class of M. R. Kopytman. Since 1969 he taught at the Chișinău Music School named after

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. He became a member of the Union of Composers of Moldova in 1972. In addition to music, he also wrote poetry, in Romanian and

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. Since 1991 he has lived in

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, in

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. He died on 22 May 2019.

References

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