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Alexander Borodin
Russian composer and member of the "Group of Five", Alexander Borodin pursued a
parallel career as a chemist and researcher. Although the time he devoted to
music was limited, he left a significant body of work, marked by Nationalist
Romanticism and dominated by the opera Prince Igor, from which were extracted
the famous Polovtsian Dances. Born in St. Petersburg on November 12, 1833,
Alexandre Porfirievitch Borodine was the illegitimate son of Georgian prince
Louka Stepanovicth Guedevanichvili and a twenty-five-year-old married Russian
woman, Evdokia Constantinovna Antonova. Beca...
