Alexandru Sochireanschi

Alexandru Sochireanschi was a Soviet Moldavian composer and musicologist who lived in Israel from 1991.

1937 to 2019Composing music in Soviet MoldovaTeaching music in ChișinăuPoetry in Romanian and Yiddish

Born: 9 January 1937, Cherkasy
Died: 22 May 2019, Israel
Occupation: composer
Education: Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts of Moldova

Alexandru Sochireanschi was born in 1937 in Cherkasy

He was born on 9 January 1937 in Cherkasy to a Jewish family. During the war he was evacuated with his mother to Taraz, where his younger sister died. His father died in the Siege of Leningrad, and after the war he returned with his mother to Cherkasy.

He studied violin at the Poltava Music School. After serving in the Soviet Army, he worked as a violinist in the orchestra of the Musical and Dramatic Theater in Cherkasy. From 1964 to 1969 he studied composition with M. R. Kopytman at the Chișinău Art Institute.

From 1969 he taught at the Ștefan Neaga Music School in Chișinău. He joined the Union of Composers of Moldova in 1972. He also wrote poetry in Romanian and Yiddish.

In 1991 he moved to Israel and settled in Kiryat Bialik. He died on 22 May 2019.