Serova, Valentina

2012/06/25

Valentina Semyonovna Servova, née Bergman (1846–1924), Russia

Composer and music critic. Studied piano with Anton Rubenstein at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, and later for the composer Aleksander Serof, whom she married in 1863. She completed her husband’s third opera after his death and subsequently composed four of her own operas.