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Article: Alexander Borodin: Sein Leben, seine Musik, seine Schriften.
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- September 1, 1994
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Alexander Borodin--composer, research chemist, medical doctor, and pedagogue -- is represented on the shelves of many music libraries with a mere handful of books in Western European languages, the most recent of which is likely to be the standard "life-and-works," published thirty-one years ago: Serge Dianin's Borodin, trans. Robert Lord (London: Oxford University Press, 1963). The present volume is thus welcome, offering a diverse collection of primary and secondary materials, most of which have never appeared in their entirety in any language other than Russian. The editor, Ernst Kuhn, has selected and (in most cases) annotated and translated thirty-six essays and ...