Matei Socor

He was active in the National Antifascist Committee, leading to his arrest in 1934, and the Romanian Society for Friendship with the Soviet Union from 1944.

[1] He was interned in a camp in 1940 due to his anti-fascist activities, and released in 1943 following appeals from George Enescu and Mihail Jora, who pleaded on behalf of "a young composer of great talent".

In other words, he portrayed contemporary western compositions as pessimistic and thus formalist, in contrast with the mobilizing and optimistic spirit furnished by the doctrine of socialist realism.

[5] Along with his rise to power, Socor's own music underwent a dramatic change, being strictly circumscribed within the limits of socialist realism, while he publicly denounced the works of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern.

[1] His wife Florica Ionescu had been a communist party member during the time it was banned, and spent much of her career as a book editor.