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Slavic Soul
Posted by John on September 1, 2020, 8:21 am Edited by board administrator September 1, 2020, 5:51 pm
Just a minor correction to Claire Seymour's balanced and comprehensive review of the disc 'Slavic Soul'. Ippolitov-Ivanov did not study with Borodin, he was a pupil of (among others) Rimsky-Korsakov at the St Petersburg Conservatory.
Borodin, as far as I am aware, did not take in any private musical pupils. He was a highly regarded Professor of Chemistry and music was a secondary career for him, as evidenced by the limited amount of work he composed.