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ALEXANDER PORPHYREVICH BORODIN

12thNovember 1833 --- 27thFebruary 1887

Borodin, Alexander Porphyrevich (1833-87), Russian composer born St Petersburg. He displayed from childhood an equal
liking for music and for science.  His professional career was that  of an  expert chemist, but he devoted all his spare time
to music.

He first came  under the influence of Balakirev and,  after a period of study,  wrote his First Symphony which shows some
influence of  Schumann, yet  is in many  respects  characteristic  of the  later Borodin  himself.  He  then  began his  opera
Prince  Igor,  working  at  it  over  several  years  from  1868  but  due to  work  and  ill health  was left  incomplete  at  his
death.  This  score was  completed by  Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov and contains some of his finest music, for example
one of his finest works Polovtsian Dances, which is often performed as a stand-alone concert nowadays.

His other works include a Second Symphony (1877) and a Third Unfinished Symphony,  2 String Quartets and a few minor
pieces for  the same combination of instruments; a dozen songs,  some of great originality and beauty; and the orchestral
tone-poem  In  the  Steppes  of  Central  Asia.  Borodin shows very distinctive melody, not greatly influenced  by  folksong
and his  harmony has a  very individual flavour,  also almost alone among Russians, he has the gift for utilising simple but
remarkably apt polyphonic combinations of these melodies, as exemplified in the tone-poem mentioned above and in the
The Tsar's Bride etc.

Last Updated on 2023
By Steven Ritchie

And now for the Music

Thanks to Chiaki Ikenoue for the music below.

New (4045)"Chorus of Villagers, from Prince Igor". Sequenced by Chiaki Ikenoue.

Thanks to Bernd Krueger for the music below.

(3504)"Petite Suite, No.1". Sequenced by Bernd Krueger.

(3503)"Petite Suite, No.2". Sequenced by Bernd Krueger.

(3502)"Petite Suite, No.3". Sequenced by Bernd Krueger.

(3501)"Petite Suite, No.4". Sequenced by Bernd Krueger.

New (4042)"Petite Suite, No.5". Sequenced by Bernd Krueger.

New (4043)"Petite Suite, No.6". Sequenced by Bernd Krueger.

New (4043)"Petite Suite, No.7". Sequenced by Bernd Krueger.

Thanks to Tony Matthews for the music below, Email(TonyM (@) absolutesolutions couk)

(2312)"Au Couvert". Sequenced by Tony Matthews.

(1433)"Notturno, from the String Quartet No.2, 3rd mov". Sequenced by Moclin Yaskawa

(1434)"Polovtsian Dances, complete version". Sequenced by Brian M. Ames.

(615)"In the Steppes of Central Asia". Sequence by Brian M. Ames

(446)"Symphony No.2 in B Minor 1st Mov". Sequenced by Lou Mondanara.

(614)"A complete piano version of Polowetzer Tanze". Sequencer unknown

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