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Updated: May 11, 2025
Borodin the composer is after all only the composer of a few fragments. But sometimes, amid the ruins of an Eastern city, men find a slab of porphyry or malachite so gorgeously grained, that not many whole and perfect works of art can stand undimmed and undiminished beside it. Such is the music of Borodin. Rimsky-Korsakoff
And certainly none of the other members of the nationalist group associated with Rimsky-Korsakoff not Moussorgsky, for all his emotional profundity; nor Borodin, for all his sumptuous imagination had so firm an intellectual grasp of the common problem, nor was technically so well equipped to solve it.
Together with the others, Borodin steeped himself in the lore and legends of the buried empire, familiarized himself with the customs of the Slavs of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, searched libraries for the missals illuminated by the old monks of the Greek church, deciphered epics and ballads and chronicles, assimilated the songs and incantations of the peasants and savage tribes of the steppes, collected the melodies of European and Asiatic Russia from the Ukraine to Turkestan.
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