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Alexander Borodin

Also known as Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin, Alexandre Porfirievitch Borodine, Alexandre Borodine, Aleksandr Porfir'yevich Borodin, Aleksandr Porfir'evič Borodin, Aleksandr Porfir'evich Borodin

Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)

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Alexander Borodin was a Russian Empire citizen who worked as a chemist, pianist, flautist, and cellist. Born in Saint Petersburg, he was educated at Saint Petersburg State University and Heidelberg University. He was a member of the group known as The Five. His musical output included works in the genres of opera, symphony, classical music, and romance. Notable compositions include *Prince Igor* and *String Quartet No. 2*.

Borodin spoke French, German, Italian, and Russian. He died in Saint Petersburg of a myocardial infarction, which was recorded as a natural cause of death. He is buried in the Tikhvin Cemetery. His life and work have been described in sources such as the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition, the *Russian Biographical Dictionary*, and the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*.

Synthesized by Vinony from 39 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Wikiquote, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works: 41

Top works

Borodin Dans les Steppes de l'Asie Centrale (2 Pianos Transc. by Angel Recas)
On the working of steam pumps on the Russian South Western Railways
What Constitutes Civil Society As a Crucial Cornerstone of Liberal Democracy?
Positive Liberty As a Driving Force for the Fulfilment of an Indefinite Number of Notions of the Self Rather Than As the Antecedent of a Single, Autho
What Does a Confrontation Between Autocratic Rule and Popular Self-Organization Entail?

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Russia
Active from: 1833
Active to: 1887

classicalcomposeroperaromantic classicalrussian composer

Discography

Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 24,475
Total plays: 147,864

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,051x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,586x
ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,530x
SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,592x
QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,967x

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Quotes

“Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.”

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Alexander Borodin, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Arija Končaka: iz opery “Knjaz Igor”/muz. A. Borodina

Břehy vzdálené vlasti/Alexandr Borodin. Slova: A. S. Puškin

Arija Igorja: iz opery “Knjaz ‘Igor’”/muz. A. Borodina

Arija Igorja: iz opery “Knjaz ‘Igor’”; (okonč.)/muz. A. Borodina

Daylight slowly extinguishes: “Fürst Igor”; (Arie des Wladimir)/(Borodin)

For the shores of thy far distand land /

Rechitative i kavatina Vladimira Igorevicha: (ok)/music by A. Borodin

Kníže Igor: opera na vlastní libreto; arie knížete Igora z II jednáni/Alexandr Borodin

Also includes: Prince Igor - How goes it prince?, Aria of Khan Kontchak (act 2)/Borodin [Unity Night: Knjaz Igor <Zdorov 'li, Knjaz>] (further template title)

How is it, Prince? : (“Pronz Igor”)/(Borodin)

Le prince Igor: Air du prince Igor; (1re partie)/Musique de Borodine - Arr. de Rimsky-Korsakow

Prince Igor : Vladimir's Aria: Tageslicht langsam erlischt (Daylight slowly fades) / (Borodin - Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)

Prince Igor: act I: Prince Galitsky 's air (I hate a dreary life)/Borodin

Le prince Igor: Air du prince Igor; (2e partie)/Musique de Borodine - Arr. de Rimsky-Korsakow

Die Ufer der fernen Heimat : russisches Lied / (Borodin)

Fürst Igor : "Arie des Khan Kontchak" / (A. Borodine)

Arija Končaka: iz opery “Knjaz Igor”/muz. A. Borodina

Kníže Igor: opera na vlastní libreto; arie knížete Igora z II jednáni/Alexandr Borodin

Arija Jaroslavny iz I-go d. op. “Knjaz Igor”/Borodin

Rechitativ i kavatina Vladimira Igorevicha / Musik von A. Borodin

Prince Igor: “Arie of Prince Galitzky”/(A. Borodine)

Prince Igor: Konchakovna 's aria; (act 2)/(Borodin)

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Encyclopedic overview

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (12 November 1833 – 27 February 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as "The Five", a group dedicated to producing a "uniquely Russian" kind of classical music. Borodin is known best for his symphonies, his two string quartets, the symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia and his opera Prince Igor.

A doctor and chemist by profession and training, Borodin made important early contributions to organic chemistry. Although he is presently known better as a composer, he regarded medicine and science as his primary occupations, only practising music and composition in his spare time or when he was ill. As a chemist, Borodin is known best for his work concerning organic synthesis, including being among the first chemists to demonstrate nucleophilic substitution, as well as being the co-discoverer of the aldol reaction. Borodin was a promoter of education in Russia and founded the School of Medicine for Women in Saint Petersburg, where he taught until 1885.

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Alexander Borodin