Word: cui
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first performance in St. Petersburg in 1876, Cesar Cui reported that "the composer was enthusiastically recalled"; and Laroche, better pleased, wrote: "The importance and power of the music, the beauty and variety of form, the nobility of style, the originality and rare perfection of technique, all contribute to make this symphony one of the most remarkable works produced during the last ten years...
...talent for medicine which his family regarded as a more respectable profession. He served two years in a military hospital, struggled with chemistry until he became a professor at the St. Petersburg Academy of Medicine. Chemist Borodin was 28 before he joined the powerful coterie composed of Balakirev, Cui. Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky, united in an ideal to restore to Russian music its nationalist essence. Borodin had less time than the others. His home adjoined the medical school. He would work a bit at the piano, then race through the corridors to see how a test tube was behaving. Daytimes...
...cruise visited the U. S. But all that time his thoughts were on music-on the sort that a small Jewish band had played on his father's estate when he was a child, on Russian folk themes which were forming the basis of the output of Balakvirev, Cui, Moussorgsky and Borodin, whose group he later joined. He even wrote music during his maritime period (he had always studied as much as his limited opportunities allowed) but it was uneven, unpolished. When he finally abandoned the navy, he studied unceasingly until he became an adept craftsman. It is related...