Matei Socor

Bucharest Conservatory from 1927 to 1929 and the Leipzig Conservatory from 1930 to 1933. In 1929-1930 and 1934-1939, Socor was a collaborator at the Bucharest Folklore Institute. From 1933, he was active as a conductor, both domestically and abroad. He composed music in almost every genre, including choral, vocal symphonic, symphonic, chamber and opera.^[1] During the interwar period, he was associated with the avant-garde, as expressed through his interest in twelve-tone technique.^[3] Socor entered the banned Romanian Communist Party as a young man. 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".^[3]

socialist realism.^[5]

Great National Assembly. In 1952, he was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. He died in Bucharest.^[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.^[4] His son is Vladimir Socor.^[6][7]