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Name |
Alexander Borodin |
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Born |
St. Petersburg, Russia, November 11, 1833 |
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Died |
St. Petersburg, Russia, February 27, 1887 |
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Works |
PM216 Symphony 2/3, Steppes of Central Asia, Prince Igor Dances |
The first Russian to compose national music to receive acclaim outside his home country. Performances were suppressed by communists in the USSR. His day job was doing scientific research in the chemistry lab. Orchestrations were done by Glazunov and Rimsky-Korsakov.
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see Milton Cross' Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and their Music, copr 1953.
PastMasters Public Domain Music catalog