Borodin

(bo-ro-din'), Alexander Por- phyrieviteh, compr. b. St. Petersburg, Nov. 12, 1834; d. there, Feb. 27, 1887. Illegitimate son of Prince of Imeretia; brought up with every advantage; student of medicine and science; army surgeon; profe or of chemistry, iounder of School of Medicine for women and lecturer there. In 1S62 B., then merely an amateur, became one of the circle influenced by Balakirev; in 1877 visited Liszt and described him vividly m letters altei wards published He began to compose his 1st symph. in the same year that he met Balakirev and before his untimely death he had composed a second symph part of a third, 2 uartcts, a suite, the symph poem?n the Steppes of Cenfral Asia, several songs and an opera Prince Igor, finished after his death by Rimsky- Korsakov and Glazounov. His best known works are the symph. poem and the quartets Ills songs are full of national lecling; in his operatic woik, however, he did not follow his “ school ” in their extreme fondne for recitative. Borowski, Felix, compr b Mar. 10, 1872, at Burton, Eng. Father, a Polish nobleman who fled to England during the Polish rebellion, was his fust teachei on the piano and violin; after a ppeneral education at private schools in London and Tun bridge Wells he began the study of the violm with Jacmics Rosenthal and later with Adolf Pollitzer in London, musical theory with Dr. Charles W. Pearce; in 1888 lie went to the Cologne Conservatory (Germany), where he studied theory and composition with Gustave Jensen, violin with Georg Japlia and piano with Ernst Houser, on his return to England he was first a violin teacher at Aberdeen, and during this time brought out his first published compositions, the mazurkas m C major and C minor; in 1894 he located in London devoting his time principally BORWICK to composition, the most striking work or the period being A Ru ian Sonata which attracted the attention of Grieg. In 1897 he accepted the position of profe or of composition in the Chicago Musical College, and has resided m that city up to the present time (1910), in addition to the composition cla es he taught violin for several years and lias conducted the cla es in history of music. He has been Chicago critic for the N. Y. Musical Courier, of the Chicago Evening Post and is now (1910) connected with the Record- Herald, and at one time prepared the program notes for the Theodore Thomas Orchestra. Compositions cover various branches Marche Tnomphale and two suites for orchestra, and two pieces for string orchestra; Suite in E minor, two sonatas, and small pieces for the organ; for the piano, a Ru ian Sonata, seven Preludes and more than 60 smaller works; for violin, a number of pieces of winch Adoration is the best known; six songs; a concerto for piano and orchestra in D mrnoi and a stiing quartet in A minor are still in manuscript.