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Something wrong?He wrote symphonies and discovered chemical reactions - both at a level that would have made either alone a career. Borodin treated composition as a side pursuit, something for spare hours and sick days, yet left two string quartets and an unfinished opera that defined Russian Romantic music.
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CMChamber MusicDNDanses polovtsiennes du Prince Igor / Symphonie n° 8MDMussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bare Mountain Borodin: Polovtsian DancesSYSymphoniesBTBBC Music, Volume 16, Number 3: Glazunov: Symphony no. 5 / Borodin / TchaikovskyBSBorodin: The Sixteen Songs / Glinka, Dargomyjsky, Balakirev: SongsPHPrince Igor (Highlights)PPPrince Igor (Bolshoy Theatre Chorus and Orchestra feat. conductor: Alexander Melik-Pashayev)SPShéhérazade, op. 35 / La grande Pâque russe, op. 36 / Dans les steppes de l'Asie centrale / Les danses polovtsiennesSMSymphony no. 2 in B minorSTStreichquartetteSDSymphony No. 2 in B Minor / Prince Igor: Overture & Polovtsian DancesSNSymphonies nos. 1-3SMString Quartets 1 & 2 / String Sextet in D minor
RORussian Cello Sonatas, Vol. II: Borodin: Cello Sonata / Stravinsky: Italian Suite / Prokofiev: Cello Sonata, op. 119SNSymphonies no. 1 / no. 2 "Bogatyrskaya" / no.3PPPrince Igor (Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, feat. conductor: Alexander Melik-Pashayev)SDSymphony Nos.2 & 3/ Polovtsian DancesBOBorodin: Quartet Nr. 2 D-Dur / Shostakovich: Quartet Nr. 4 D-Dur, op. 83BIBalakirev: Symphony no. 1 / Rimsky-Korsakov: Suite from Le Coq d'or / Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince IgorSIStravinsky: The Firebird / Borodin: Music from Prince IgorSQString Quartet No. 2 / Cello Sonata / Piano QuintetBOBilder einer Ausstellung / Die Nacht auf dem kahlen Berge / Khovantchina OvertureAwards
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Born in 1833 to Georgian-Russian parents, Borodin trained as a doctor and chemist, making early contributions to organic synthesis - he was among the first to demonstrate nucleophilic substitution and co-discovered the aldol reaction. He joined "The Five", a circle bent on forging a uniquely Russian classical sound, and produced his symphonies, In the Steppes of Central Asia, and the opera Prince Igor in whatever time medicine and science left him. In 1885 he founded the School of Medicine for Women in Saint Petersburg and taught there until illness and work consumed his final years. He died suddenly at a ball in 1887, mid-sentence in a double life.
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