Crossword-Solution: SEROV 5 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Serov was an enthusiastic imitator of Wagner, and even his own countrymen admit that his works have little musical value.

This, at length, he, in the company of de Windt, tentatively did: taking his place in one of Zaremba's classes of composition, and undertaking the study of orchestration under Serov.

You know Serov signed a contract to take the intermediate classes: theory and orchestration, you understand." Ivan nodded.

Beethoven, and Bach and Mozart, and Rubinstein are to be superseded by the wonderful Wagner--who hasn't a notion of music in his head! and Serov, the imitator; and now Gregoriev, infant prodigy, picked out of the gutter by me, from whom he now proceeds to steal the only ideas he has about composing!--And here I, a genius, have slaved all my life away to please a public who desert me in an hour for this--this--" Wine and emotion, acting together, were making the man almost maudlin.

What wonder? Never before had we come face to face with such a gifted, impassioned, almost demoniacal personality as that of Liszt, who seemed alternately to let loose the forces of the whirlwind, or to carry us away on a flood of tenderness, grace, and beauty.' "Serov felt even more strongly the fascination of Liszt's genius.