Alexander Borodin

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 .

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