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Title: Modern composers of Europe : being an account of the most recent musical progress in the various European nations, with some notes on their history, and critical and biographical sketches of the contemporary musical leaders in each country
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Elson, Arthur, 1873-1940
Subjects: Composers
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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most earnest partisans of thehigher education for women, and aided in foundinga medical school for them, where he taught chem-istry and worked actively until his death. Heregarded science as his life-work, and often re-frained from publishing his compositions, as he con-sidered music merely an avocation. Yet he commenced to compose at an early age,almost by instinct. At thirteen he wrote a con-certo for flute and piano, and soon afterward ascherzo for piano and string sextette. It was onlyafter 1862, however, when he became a member ofthe group of nationalists, that he devoted himselfseriously to composition. Five years later his firstsymphony was completed, and produced soon afterby Balakireff. Encouraged by the success of thiswork, he began an opera on Meis drama, TheCzars Betrothed/ but did not complete it. Heproduced then a number of songs, such as LaMer, La Princesse Endormie, Vieille Chan-son, and others. These are usually painted insombre colours, and Borodin has shown himself
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ALEXANDER PORPHYRJEVITCH BORODIN. THE NATIONAL RUSSIANS 259 a master of dissonance who is at times too muchdevoted to effects of cacophony. But there is realgreatness, also, in the works. At this time he wrote one act of Mlada, thecomposite work produced to order by himself, Cui,Moussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakoff. This deviceof working together has been followed by someof the younger composers, who gave homage totheir publisher Belaieff by writing different move-ments of a quartette on the notes B, La, F. Boro-din continued his operatic labours by writing Prince Igor, which was not produced until afterhis death. In the instrumental field a second symphony wasas successful as the first, and a third, incomplete,has been finished by Glazounoff. An orchestralscherzo and two delightfully original quartettes arealso worthy of mention, and his choral and pianomusic displays the same qualities as his greatercompositions. His style is somewhat complicated,at times contrapuntal, and full of bold

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