Valentina Serova (composer)

Valentina Semyonova Serova (maiden name Bergman) (1846 – June 26, 1924) was a Russian composer of German-Jewish descent.

Alexander Serov died of a heart attack in January 1871, and Valentina completed the last act of his third and final opera, The Power of the Fiend.

Valentina asked him if he would give her some lessons in harmony, but he recommended she seek out the guidance of Anton Arensky instead.

Valentina Serova's sister, Adelaida, and brother-in-law, Yakov Simonovich, were early childhood pedagogues who, in 1863, founded Russia's first kindergarten.

Her son, Valentin, married their adopted daughter, Olga Trubnikova, and had five children with descendants now living in Russia, France, Cyprus, and Lebanon.