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7 videos • 420 views • by Foriero - We bring LIGHT! Product : http://www.foriero.com/pages/music-ke... Company : http://www.foriero.com/ Piano Sound : www.truepianos.com Music License: cc-by-sa Germany License Performer: Bernd Krueger Source: http://www.piano-midi.de ----------------------- Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (12 November 1833 -- 27 February 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer, doctor and chemist. Borodin was born in Saint Petersburg, the illegitimate son of a Georgian noble, Luka Gedevanishvili. In 1850 he entered the Medical--Surgical Academy in St Petersburg and pursued a career in chemistry. In 1862 Borodin returned to St Petersburg to take up a professorial chair in chemistry at the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy and spent the remainder of his scientific career in research, lecturing and overseeing the education of others. He was a notable advocate of women's rights and a proponent of education in Russia. He suffered poor health, having overcome cholera and several minor heart attacks. He died suddenly during a ball at the Academy in Saint Petersburg. In 1868 Borodin started to work on the opera Prince Igor, which is seen by some to be his most significant work and one of the most important historical Russian operas. It contains the Polovtsian Dances, probably Borodin's best known composition. Borodin left the opera (and a few other works) incomplete at his death. Prince Igor was completed posthumously by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov. Some other compositions: popular symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia, Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, Symphony No. 2 in B minor, Second String Quartet. ------------------------ The text above is taken from Wikipedia, under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.