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 1860s and as the most significant Russian composer in the period between Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka and the works of Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, and Tchaikovsky.
- Occupation
- composer, music critic, jurist, music educator
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Born
- January 23, 1820
- Died
- February 1, 1871