Serrano y Ruiz, Emilio (1850-1939)

Spanish pianist and composer. He became court pianist to the Infanta Isabella, director of the Royal Opera in Madrid, and professor at the Conservatory.

Works Opera Mitridate (1882), Giovanna la pazza, Irene de Otranto (1891), Gonzalo de Córdoba (1898), and La maja de Rumba (1910);

Other symphonic poem La primera salide de Don Quijote (after Cervantes).