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Alexander Serov

1820 - 1871

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Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Серо́в, 23 January [O.S. 11 January] 1820 – 1 February [O.S. 20 January] 1871) was a Russian composer and music critic. He is notable as one of the most important music critics in Russia during the 1850s and 1860s and as the most significant Russian composer in the period between Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka and the works of Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, and Tchaikovsky. Alexander Serov was the father of Russian artist Valentin Serov. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Serov is the 1,062nd most popular composer (down from 1,054th in 2019), the 1,509th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,549th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Russian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alexander Serov ranks 1,062 out of 1,451. Before him are Karen Khachaturian, Joseph Lamb, Alessandro Striggio, Igor Krutoy, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, and James MacMillan. After him are Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Gustav Ernesaks, Heinrich Schenker, Eduard Künneke, Lorenzo Perosi, and Nikolai Roslavets.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Alexander Serov ranks 63. Before him are Sergey Solovyov, Anton Josef Gruscha, Elisha Kent Kane, Nikolay Girs, Mariano Melgarejo, and William Howard Russell. After him are Andrej Sládkovič, Gillis Bildt, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Jakob Stämpfli, Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, and Maria Katharina Kasper. Among people deceased in 1871, Alexander Serov ranks 57. Before him are Peter von Hess, François Delsarte, Stand Watie, Mariano Melgarejo, Henri Regnault, and Kuriakose Elias Chavara. After him are Victor Motschulsky, Willibald Alexis, Paul Kane, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Adolph Strecker, and Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Serov ranks 1,509 out of 3,761. Before him are Mischa Auer (1905), Alexander Chayanov (1888), Esfir Shub (1894), Gamzat-bek (1789), Mikhail Khorobrit (1229), and Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873). After him are Stepan Krasheninnikov (1711), Nikolai Slichenko (1934), Vitaly Churkin (1952), Aleksandr Mostovoi (1968), Vladimir Vasiliev (1940), and Larin Paraske (1832).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Alexander Serov ranks 52. Before him are Ivan Larionov (1830), Hermann Goetz (1840), Sergei Vasilenko (1872), Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936), Gavriil Popov (1904), and Karen Khachaturian (1920). After him are Nikolai Roslavets (1881), Valeri Brainin (1948), Aulis Sallinen (1935), Shlomo Mintz (1957), Dimitri Arakishvili (1873), and Andrei Eshpai (1925).

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