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Ivan Alexandrovich Serov (Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Серóв; 13 August 1905 – 1 July 1990) was a Soviet intelligence officer who served as Chairman of the KGB from March 1954 to December 1958 and Director of the GRU from December 1958 to February 1963.
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Like Tchaikovsky a generation later, Aleksandr Serov was enrolled by his father at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence (Saint Petersburg) in 1835, when he was fifteen. One vital difference, though, between the early years of Tchaikovsky and Serov was the fact that, unlike Ilya Petrovich Tchaikovsky, Serov's father was determined that his son shoul...
Internet Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)Taruskin, R. Glinka's Ambiguous Legacy and the Birth Pangs of Russian Opera, 19th Century Music,Vol. 1 (1977), p. 142–162Taruskin, R. Opera and Drama in Russia — As Preached and Practiced in the 1860s (Rochester, NY, 1993), which has a chapter on each of Serov's three operas:Alexander Nikolayevich Serov was a Russian composer and music critic. He is notable as one of the most important music critics in Russia during the 1850s and 18...
The Power of the Fiend (‹See Tfd› Russian: Вражья сила, Vrazhya sila) is an opera in five acts by Alexander Serov, composed during 1867-1871. The libretto is derived from a drama by Alexander Ostrovsky from 1854 entitled Live Not As You Would Like To, But As God Commands.
A civil servant and self-taught musician, he was a noted critic – he wrote some of the earliest appreciations in Russia of Mozart, Beethoven, Donizetti, Rossini, Meyerbeer, and Spontini – and an admirer (a self-styled ‘apostle’) of Wagner.
"This is an original scholarly monograph about the life and work of the Russian composer and critic Alexander Serov (1820-1871), studied through the lens of his understanding of modernity as it developed in Russia in the mid nineteenth century.
Oct 15, 2021 · Educated in law and tutored in music, Serov rose to become Russia’s first significant music critic and a noted composer whose three operas won him fame and gestured toward the creation of a national style.
