Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirevich
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...d r p rfe rivich borodyen , 1833 87, Russian composer, chemist, and physician. He...school of medicine for women. An amateur musician, he had little musical training, consisting...Petersburg in 1890. He was one of a group of Russian nationalist composers known as The Five...