Mikhail Matveyevich Sokolovsky ( (1756 – after 1795) was a late 18th-century

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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 opera, Russian ballad opera in three acts with a libre ...

'' (''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 () (born St. Petersburg – died St. Petersburg c ) was a Russian opera composer of the 18th century Biography Fomin was born in St. Petersburg into the family of a cannoneer, an artillery soldier of the To ...

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

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'' (editor,

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). London, 1992 .

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