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Saint-Petersburg > City Today > Key persons > Composers > Borodin A.P.
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 Composer and scientist, born in St Petersburg, Russia. He showed a precocious aptitude for music, but was trained for medicine and distinguished himself as a chemist. His first systematic musical studies were undertaken in 1862, under Balakirev, who conducted his first symphony in 1869. His compositions include the unfinished opera, Prince Igor (edited and published by Rimsky-Korsakov), three symphonies, and the symphonic sketch In the Steppes of Central Asia |
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| St. Petersburg Administration 191060, St. Petersburg, Smolny |
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