Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Alexander Borodin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Georgian composer Alexander Borodin.

Last updated on November 9, 2024.

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian-Russian extraction. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as "The Five", a group dedicated to producing a uniquely Russian kind of classical music. Borodin is known best for his symphonies, his two string quartets, the symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia and his opera Prince Igor.

Georgian - Composer | November 12, 1833 - February 27, 1887

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I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.

Alexander Borodin

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

Alexander Borodin

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

Alexander Borodin

As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.

Alexander Borodin

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Alexander Borodin

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