* In his book Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame ( 1974 ) Charles Bukowski wrote a poem about the life of Borodin entitled " the life of borodin ".

Borodin wrote two in his Petite Suite for piano ; Mikhail Glinka also wrote two, although one is a simplified version of Chopin's Mazurka No. 13.

Shostakovich reports, however, that Glazunov told him when drunk that his " reconstruction " of Borodin's overture was actually original work ; Glazunov chose to give full credit to Borodin for the composition which he, Glazunov, wrote.

After him in the 19th century in Russia there were written such operatic masterpieces as Rusalka and The Stone Guest by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky, Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin, Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and The Snow Maiden and Sadko by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

After briefly considering Lev Mey's The Tsar's Bride as a subject ( later taken up in 1898 by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, his 9th opera ), Borodin began looking for a new project for his first opera.

The Mlada project was soon aborted, and Borodin, like the other members of The Mighty Handful who were involved — César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov — thought about ways to recycle the music he contributed.

Borodin returned to Prince Igor in 1874, inspired by the success of his comrades Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky in the staging of their historical operas, The Maid of Pskov ( 1873 ) and Boris Godunov ( 1874 ).

In 1876, a frustrated Stasov gave up hope that Borodin would ever finish Prince Igor, and offered his scenario to Rimsky-Korsakov.

Rimsky-Korsakov instead assisted Borodin in orchestrating important numbers in preparation for concert performance — for example, the Polovtsian Dances in 1879:

In conjunction with critic and fellow nationalist Vladimir Stasov, in the late-1850s and early 1860s Balakirev brought together the composers now known as The Five — the others were Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Often, the musical ideas normally associated with Rimsky-Korsakov or Borodin originated in Balakirev's compositions, which Balakirev played at informal gatherings of The Five.

These included Modest Mussorgsky in 1858 ; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in November 1861 and Alexander Borodin in November or December 1862.

Balakirev encouraged Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin to complete their first symphonies, whose premieres he conducted in December 1865 and January 1869 respectively.

Cui composed in almost all genres of his time, with the distinct exceptions of the symphony and the symphonic poem ( unlike his compatriots Balakirev, Borodin, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov ).

Fyodor's association with many of the leading figures in Russian music, including Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Mussorgsky, meant that Igor grew up in an intensely musical home.

* Prince Igor begun by Alexander Borodin, completed by Alexander Glazunov and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful, The Mighty Five, or The Mighty Coterie (, Moguchaya kuchka ), refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856 – 1870: Mily Balakirev ( the leader ), César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin.

This loose collection of composers gathered around Balakirev now included Cui, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin — the five who have come to be associated with the name " Mighty Handful ", or sometimes " The Five ".

Modest Mussorgsky joined them in 1857, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1861, and Alexander Borodin in 1862.

Balakirev was 25, Cui 27, Mussorgsky 23, Borodin the eldest at 28, and Rimsky-Korsakov just 18.

A group that called itself " The Mighty Five ", headed by Balakirev ( 1837 – 1910 ) and including Rimsky-Korsakov ( 1844 – 1908 ), Mussorgsky ( 1839 – 81 ), Borodin ( 1833 – 87 ) and César Cui ( 1835 – 1918 ), proclaimed its purpose to compose and popularize Russian national traditions in classical music.

In the first years the winners included Alexander Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Cesar Cui and Anatoly Lyadov.

In 1885 Belyayev started his own publishing house in Leipzig, Germany, initially publishing music by Glazunov, Lyadov, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin at his own expense.

Nevertheless, Auer's group performed quartets by Tchaikovsky, Alexander Borodin, Glazunov and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

" Alexander Borodin included quotations from the piece in his opera Prince Igor, while Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov did the same in Scheherazade.

However, while Shostakovich shows a considerable amount of inner resource, Glazunov falls back on the musical procedures of the Nationalists, such as Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov.

The group was under strong influence of neoromanticism in music and especially of foreign composers such as Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner and those belonging to The Mighty Handful group e. g. Modest Musorgski, Alexander Borodin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

A picture was taken of Chiang with Borodin and Galens.

It was composed by Alexander Borodin.

Soon the new edition based on 92 survived note manuscripts by Borodin was completed by musicologist Anna Bulycheva.

While attempting to direct the government from Wuhan, Wang was notable for his close collaboration with leading communist figures, including Mao Zedong, Chen Duxiu, and Borodin, and for his faction's provocative land reform policies.

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin ( 12 November 1833 – 27 February 1887 ) was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian – Russian parentage.

Borodin was born in Saint Petersburg, the illegitimate son of a Georgian noble, Luka Gedevanishvili ( ლუკა სიმონის ძე გედევანიშვილი ) and a 24-year-old Russian woman, Evdokia Konstantinovna Antonova ( Евдокия Константиновна Антонова ).

In 1862 Borodin became a professor of chemistry at the Academy of Medicine, and eventually was able to establish medical courses for women ( 1872 ).

A related reaction known to the West as the Hunsdiecker reaction published in 1939 by the Hunsdieckers was promoted by the Soviet Union as the Borodin reaction.

In that same year Borodin started on his Symphony No. 2 in B minor, which was not particularly successful at its premiere in 1877 under Eduard Nápravník, but with some minor re-orchestration received a successful performance in 1879 by the Free Music School under Rimsky-Korsakov's direction.

In 1954, Borodin was posthumously awarded a Tony Award for this show.

* The Borodin Quartet was named in his honour.

Soviet advisers — the most prominent of whom was an agent of the Comintern, Mikhail Borodin — began to arrive in China in 1923 to aid in the reorganization and consolidation of the Kuomintang along the lines of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and establish the First United Front.

Ho was ostensibly sent to China to work as a secretary and interpreter to Mikhail Borodin, but he actually set to work almost immediately attempting to transform the existing Vietnamese patriotic movement towards revolutionary ends.

The Tale of Igor's Campaign was adapted by Alexander Borodin as an opera and became one of the great classics of Russian theatre.

Mackenzie was conductor of the Royal Choral Society and the Philharmonic Society Orchestra between 1892 and 1899, giving the British premières of many works, including symphonies by Tchaikovsky and Borodin.

George Forrest ( July 31, 1915 – October 10, 1999 ) was a writer of music and lyrics for musical theatre best known for the show Kismet, adapted from the works of Alexander Borodin.

Robert ( Bob ) Craig Wright ( September 25, 1914 – July 27, 2005 ) was an American composer-lyricist for Hollywood and the musical theatre best known for the Broadway musical and musical film Kismet, for which he and his professional partner George Forrest adapted themes by Alexander Borodin and added lyrics.

On the basis of a grateful Borodin ’ s reports on Roy ’ s activities, Moscow was to invite Roy to the 2nd World Congress of the Communist International, held in Moscow during the summer of 1920.

Mikhail Markovich Borodin ( Михаи ́ л Mápкoвич Бороди ́ н ) ( July 9, 1884 – May 29, 1951 ) was the alias of Mikhail Gruzenberg, a Comintern agent and Soviet arms dealer.

Borodin was born in Yanovich, located in modern Vitsebsk Voblast, Belarus.