Vladimir Senilov was a Russian composer, born on July 21, 1875, in Vyatka, and died on September 18, 1918, in Petrograd.
From childhood he studied piano and flute. He later entered the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University and graduated in 1899. From 1899 to 1901 he attended lectures in Leipzig by Hugo Riemann on music theory. From 1902 to 1906 he studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
Senilov worked primarily in opera. His stage works included the operas George the Brave to a text by Aleksei Remizov, Vasily Buslayev, a musical drama to his own text, and Hippolytus, based on the tragedy by Euripides.
His output also included a symphony, the overture In Autumn, and several symphonic poems: Wild Ducks after Maupassant, Mtsyri after the poem of the same name by Mikhail Lermontov, Pan, and The Scythians. He also wrote a poem for cello and piano, three string quartets, and about ninety romances on texts by Konstantin Balmont, Alexander Blok, Valery Bryusov, Fyodor Sologub, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Richepin, Heinrich Heine, and others.
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