Alexander Sokovnin

Alexander Sokovnin was a Soviet and Moldovan pianist and music teacher. He was honored as a Merited Art Worker of the Moldavian SSR.

He was born on October 31, 1912, in Kryvyi Rih, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire, in the family of the lawyer Lev Alexandrovich Sokovnin and the homemaker Berta Yeremeevna Sokovnina.

In 1927 he moved from Kryvyi Rih to Dnipropetrovsk, where he entered the Dnipropetrovsk Music College in the class of Yevgenia Geyman. In 1929 Geyman left for Leningrad and took a position at the Leningrad Music College, and Sokovnin followed her there to continue his studies.

He later studied at the Leningrad Music Technical School with Pavel Serebryakov and at the Leningrad Conservatory with Leonid Nikolayev. He taught in Leningrad, Izhevsk, and Tashkent.

In 1947 he was appointed deputy director of the Kaunas Conservatory. In 1948, after D. G. Gershfeld was removed during the campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans," Sokovnin briefly headed the Chișinău Conservatory, and afterward for many years led its department of special piano.

As a performer, he gave concerts within the republic and gained particular recognition as an interpreter of works by Alexander Scriabin. Among his students were Alexander Bonduryansky and the music teacher Lia Oksinoit.

He died on April 29, 1993, in Chișinău, Moldova.

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