The scherzo second movement of his second string quartet, a work in D, is unusually in sonata form; other chamber works by this man include a string quintet in F minor and a string sextet in D minor.
The scherzo second movement of his second string quartet, a work in D, is unusually in sonata form; other chamber works by this man include a string quintet in F minor and a string sextet in D minor. His scherzo in A-flat is often appended to his seven-movement Petite Suite, which was composed some 35 years after his Helene-Polka. He left both the satirical opera The Heroic Warriors and his third symphony unfinished, and he was to compose the fourth act of an opera-ballet later completed by Rimsky-Korsakov, the aborted Mlada, though he is better known for an opera which includes "Konchakovna's Cavatina" and the Polovtsian Dances. He also composed a "symphonic sketch" dedicated to Franz Liszt which evokes images of camels and merchants traveling across the title location. For 10 points, identify this member of the Mighty Five, an aldol condensation enthusiast who composed the opera Prince Igor and the tone poem In the Steppes of Central Asia.
The scherzo second movement of his second string quartet, a work in D, is unusually in sonata form; other chamber works by this man include a string quintet in F minor and a string sextet in D minor.
Aleksandr Porfiryevich {Borodin}