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See also:BORODIN, See also:ALEXANDER PORFYRIEVICH (1834–1889) , See also:Russian musical composer, natural son of a Russian See also:prince, was See also:born in St See also:Petersburg on the 12th of See also:November 1834. He was brought up to the medical profession, and in 1862 was appointed assistant See also:professor of See also:chemistry' at the St Petersburg See also:academy of See also:medicine. He wrote several See also:works on chemistry, and took a leading See also:part in advocating See also:women's See also:education, helping to found the school of medicine for women, and lecturing there from 1872 till his See also:death. But he is best known as a musician. His See also:interest in See also:music was indeed stimulated from 1862 onwards by his friend-See also:ship with See also:Balakirev, and from 1863 by his See also:marriage with a See also:lady who was an accomplished pianist; but in his earlier years he had been proficient both in playing the piano, See also:violin, 'cello and other See also:instruments, and also in composing; and during See also:life he did his best to pursue his studies in both music and chemistry with equal See also:enthusiasm. Like other Russian composers he owed much to the See also:influence of See also:Liszt at See also:Weimar. His first See also:symphony was written in 1862–1867; his See also:opera Prince Igor, begun in 1869, was See also:left unfinished at his death, and was completed by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazounov (1889); his symphonic See also:sketch, " In the See also:Steppes " (1880) is, however, his best-known See also:work. Borodin also wrote a second symphony (1871–1877), part of a third (orchestrated after his death by Glazounov), and a few See also:string quartets and some See also:fine songs. His music is characteristically Russian, and of an advanced See also:modern type. He died suddenly at St Petersburg, on the 28th of See also:February 1887.
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