Vladimir Sokalsky

Vladimir Ivanovich Sokalsky (Ukrainian: Сокальський Володимир Іванович; Russian: Владимир Иванович Сокальский, 1863 - 1919) was a composer, musical critic, and lawyer.

He was born on 24 April 1863 at Heidelberg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden.

Since 1882 contributed as a musical reviewer of the "South country" newspaper, under a pseudonym Don-Diez.

At meetings of the Kharkov branch of Russian musical society its products were executed, and the opera "Repka" was performed in Poltave, Smolensk, Tiflis and Kharkov.

In 1918 in Vologda, he performed several lectures and concerts devoted to creativity of Beethoven and Grieg with his daughter Lydia, and son-in-law Ilya Ginetsinsky.