Nationalist school · Russia
Borodin's symphonies
A "Sunday composer" whose day job was professor of chemistry
- English name
- Alexander Borodin
- Life
- 1833–1887
- Country
- Russia
- Mainly active in
- St. Petersburg
- Symphony
- 2 symphonies
- In a line
- The composer who worked as a chemist and wrote the opera 'Prince Igor'
Fun to know
- As a chemist, he left his name on the 'Hunsdiecker–Borodin reaction'
- In 1872 he was a leader in founding Russia's first medical courses for women
- In 1887 he collapsed suddenly during a ball and died
2 symphonies
- Symphony No. 1E♭ major · 1867The first symphony, written over five years under Balakirev's guidance
- Symphony No. 2 'Bogatyr'B minor · 1876 · about 28 minA chemistry professor's symphony of Russian heroes
Credits