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Borodin at the age of 14Borodin was born in as an illegitimate son of a 62-year-old nobleman, Luka Stepanovich Gedevanishvili, and a married 25-year-old Russian woman, Evdokia Konstantinovna Antonova. Due to the circumstances of Alexander's birth, the nobleman had him registered as the son of one of his Russian, Porfiry Borodin, hence the composer's Russian last name. As a result of this registration, both Alexander and his nominal Russian father Porfiry were officially serfs of Alexander's biological father Luka. The Georgian father emancipated Alexander from serfdom when he was 7 years old and provided housing and money for him and his mother.
Despite this, Alexander was never publicly recognized by his mother, who was referred to by young Borodin as his 'aunt'.Despite his status as a commoner, Borodin was well provided for by his Georgian father and grew up in a large four-storey house, which was gifted to Alexander and his 'aunt' by the nobleman. Although his registration prevented enrollment in a proper, Borodin received good education in all of the subjects through private tutors at home. During 1850 he enrolled in the Medical–Surgical Academy in Saint Petersburg, which was later the workplace of, and pursued a career in chemistry.
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On graduation he spent a year as surgeon in a military hospital, followed by three years of advanced scientific study in western Europe.During 1862 Borodin returned to Saint Petersburg to begin a professorship of chemistry at the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy and spent the remainder of his scientific career in research, lecturing and overseeing the education of others. Eventually, he established medical courses for women (1872).He began taking lessons in composition from during 1862.
He married Ekaterina Protopopova, a pianist, during 1863, and had at least one daughter, named Gania. Music remained a secondary vocation for Borodin besides his main career as a chemist and physician. He suffered poor health, having overcome and several minor. He died suddenly during a ball at the Academy, and was interred in at the in.Career as a chemist In his profession Borodin gained great respect, being particularly noted for his work on. Between 1859 and 1862 Borodin had a postdoctoral position in. He worked in the laboratory of working on benzene derivatives. He also spent time in, working on.
One experiment published during 1862 described the first of chlorine by fluorine in. The radical halodecarboxylation of aliphatic carboxylic acids was first demonstrated by Borodin during 1861 by his synthesis of from. It was and his wife, however, who developed Borodin's work into a general method, for which they were granted a during 1939, and which they published in the journal during 1942. The method is generally known as either the or the Hunsdiecker–Borodin reaction.During 1862, Borodin returned to the Medical–Surgical Academy (now known as the ), and accepted a professorship of chemistry. He worked on self- of small aldehydes in a process now known as the, the discovery of which is jointly credited to Borodin. Borodin investigated the condensation of and, which was reported by von Richter during 1869.
A tune a day violin free pdf. During 1873, he described his work to the Russian Chemical Society and noted similarities with compounds recently reported by Wurtz.He published his last full article during 1875 on reactions of and his last publication concerned a method for the identification of in animal urine.His successor as chemistry professor of the Medical-Surgical academy was his son-in-law and fellow chemist,.Musical avocation Opera and orchestral works. Portrait of Borodin by, 1888Borodin met during 1862. While under Balakirev's tutelage in composition he began his Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major; it was first performed during 1869, with Balakirev conducting. During that same year Borodin started on his Symphony No.
2 in B minor, which was not particularly successful at its premiere during 1877 under, but with some minor re-orchestration received a successful performance during 1879 by the Free Music School by direction. During 1880 he composed the popular. Two years later he began composing a third symphony, but left it unfinished at his death; two movements of it were later completed and orchestrated by.During 1868 Borodin became distracted from initial work on the second symphony by preoccupation with the, which is considered by some to be his most significant work and one of the most important historical Russian operas. It contains the, often performed as a stand-alone concert work forming what is probably Borodin's best-known composition. Borodin left the opera (and a few other works) incomplete at his death.was completed posthumously.
It is set in the 12th century, when the Russians, commanded by Prince Igor of Seversk, determined to conquer the barbarous by travelling eastward across the Steppes. The Polovtsians were apparently a nomadic tribe originally of Turkish origin who habitually attacked southern Russia. A full early during the first act foreshadows an ominous outcome to the invasion. Prince Igor's troops are defeated. The story tells of the capture of Prince Igor, and his son, Vladimir, of Russia by Polovtsian chief Khan Konchak, who entertains his prisoners lavishly and orders his slaves to perform the famous 'Polovtsian Dances', which provide a thrilling climax to the second act. The second half of the opera finds Prince Igor returning to his homeland, but rather than finding himself in disgrace, he is welcomed home by the townspeople and by his wife, Yaroslavna. Although for a while rarely performed in its entirety outside of Russia, this opera has received two notable new productions recently, one at the Bolshoi State Opera and Ballet Company in Russia during 2013, and one at the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York City during 2014.
Chamber music No other member of the Balakirev circle identified himself so much with as did Borodin in his two string quartets, and in his many earlier chamber compositions. Himself a cellist, he was an enthusiastic chamber music player, an interest that increased during his chemical studies in Heidelberg between 1859 and 1861. This early period yielded, among other chamber works, a string sextet and a piano quintet. In thematic structure and instrumental texture he based his pieces on those of.During 1875 Borodin started his First String Quartet, much to the displeasure of. That Borodin did so in the company of The Five, who were hostile to chamber music, demonstrates his independence.
From the First Quartet onward, he displayed mastery of the form. His, in which his strong lyricism is represented in the popular ', followed during 1881.
The First Quartet is richer in changes of mood. The Second Quartet has a more uniform atmosphere and expression. Musical legacy.
Many musical historians regard Prince Igor as Borodin’s magnum opus. But, strictly speaking, it should really be considered as his ‘magnum opus infectus’ – his great unfinished work.Despite spending some eighteen years working on it, by the time Borodin died, aged fifty-four, Prince Igor was still incomplete. The main string to Borodin’s bow was chemistry: he was a professor at the St Petersburg Academy of Medicine. That meant that the huge four-act epic that started life as The Lay of the Host of Igor was always going to have a job competing for his attentions.So, in 1887, when Borodin died – in full national dress, it should be added (he suffered a heart attack at a ball) – Rimsky-Korsakov, with Glazunov, began the hugely unenviable task of sifting through his belongings; the score of Prince Igor loomed large. As Rimsky-Korsakov later wrote in his memoirs, ‘Glazunov.
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Was to fill in all the gaps in Act III and write down from memory the Overture played so often by the composer, while I was to orchestrate, finish composing, and systematise all the rest that had been left.’ all things considered, they did a wonderful job.Recommended RecordingNikolai Putilin, Galina Gorchakova, Evgeny Akimov, Sergey Aleksashkin, Vladimir Vaneev, Olga Borodina. Kirov Opera & Ballet, Philips DVD: 0741739.