Aleksandr Borodin: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Aleksandr Porfiryevich Borodin
Born November 12, 1833 • St. Petersburg • Russia
Died February 27, 1887 (aged 53) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Notable Works “Polovtsian Dances” • “Prince Igor” • “Symphony No. 1 in E Flat Major”
Movement / Style Romanticism • nationalistic music • Russia • The Five
Subjects Of Study aldehyde

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Mily Balakirev, portrait by Léon Bakst, c. 1900–10.
Mily Balakirev
Russian composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Aleksandr Glazunov.
Aleksandr Glazunov
Russian composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff in profile, seated at a piano, playing with both hands on the keys.
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Mikhail Glinka.
Mikhail Glinka
Russian composer
Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, oil painting by K.Y. Makovsky.
Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky
Russian composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Smetana
Bedřich Smetana
Bohemian composer
Modest Mussorgsky, portrait by Ilya Repin, 1881; in the Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya, Moscow.
Modest Mussorgsky
Russian composer
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Dmitry Kabalevsky
Russian composer
Nikolay Tcherepnin.
Nikolay Tcherepnin
Russian composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with a serious expression and a brick wall in the background.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
César Franck, detail of a portrait by J. Rongier; in a private collection.
César Franck
Belgian-French composer