Presentations on the biography of the writer Leonid Borodin. Alexander Porfirevich Borodin. A heroic theme in the work of the composer. Scene from the opera

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Young scientist

• By that time, the young scientist Borodin was already the author of several romances, instrumental pieces, and ensembles. Some of his piano pieces have even been published.
• In Heidelberg, Borodin also composes, mainly chamber-instrumental ensembles: a piano trio, a sextet, and a string quintet. They are immediately performed with pleasure at musical evenings. But, despite a strong attraction to music and the success of his compositions, he treats music as a secondary matter - so great was his passion for science.

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Second Symphony

At the same time he created the Second Symphony - one of the best works of Russian symphonic music, a mature work, perfect in form and content. The symphony expresses the ideas of patriotism, national pride in our glorious historical past.

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Heroic symphony

• She was enthusiastically greeted by the composer's friends, who praised it as the best Russian symphony, surpassing everything created before it. When Mussorgsky proposed to call it "Slavic heroic", Stasov protested: not in general Slavic, but specifically - Russian, heroic. So this symphony began to be called - "Heroic".
• The second, Heroic Symphony is on a par with the best works of the world musical classics. It embodies the enduring spiritual values, spiritual qualities of the Russian people.

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Opera "Prince Igor"

Simultaneously with the Second Symphony, Borodin also worked on the creation of his main work - the opera "Prince Igor". He began composing it in the late 1860s. Stasov then offered him "The Lay of Igor's Campaign" as a plot. This fascinated the composer, and soon a detailed plan for the future opera was drawn up. This is how the inspirational and painstaking work on the opera "Prince Igor" began, which, due to his usual employment, stretched for 18 years - until his death.

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Scene from the opera

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Opera "Prince Igor"

• Borodin's thoroughness as a scientist was also reflected in his approach to composing. The list of historical sources - scientific and artistic-literary, which he worked through before starting to create the opera, says a lot. Here are various translations of "The Lay of Igor's Campaign", and all fundamental research on the history of Russia.
• The work on the opera helped to endure grief and failure. Especially depressing was his wife's illness - asthma, because of which she could not live in St. Petersburg and usually spent six months with her parents in Moscow or the Moscow region. And her visits to Petersburg did not make Borodin's life easier.

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Music crowds out the scientist

Nevertheless, at the end of his life, Borodin devoted himself more and more to music - the composer gradually supplants the scientist in him. During these years, a symphonic picture "In Central Asia" was created, as well as several piano pieces and chamber ensembles. One of them - the First String Quartet - was performed in the winter of 1879 at a concert of the Russian Musical Society

Introduction.

This lesson plan is suitable for an open class lesson with students in grades 4-10, but it can also be used for a single-class lesson.

Target: popularization of the name of the great composer, chemist A.P. Borodin.

Tasks:

1. To acquaint with the musical creativity of the composer, to awaken interest in music and chemistry.
2. To foster a sense of beauty, a sense of patriotism and pride in national history and art.
3. To develop the creative, intellectual and communication skills of students.

Equipment: slide presentations, portraits of A.P. Borodin's contemporaries, musical works by Borodin, TSO.

Before the lesson, students in grades 6-10, under the guidance of a teacher, prepare a musical and literary composition based on the opera "Prince Igor". Pupils from the class choose opera characters for themselves (Prince Igor, his wife Yaroslavna, Polovtsian Khan Konchak and others) and receive the texts of the corresponding poems and songs in their hands, which they either learn by heart or use in the process of performing the composition.

Participants must be familiar with the plot of "The Lay of Igor's Campaign" and voluntarily agree to take part in one role or another. The teacher needs to prepare each student in advance for the performance, answer all the questions of interest to the students on this topic.

Pupils' performances in the composition take place under pre-prepared musical recordings or under the teacher's live performance on the piano. Also, in the course of the narration, slides of a specially prepared presentation telling about the plot of the opera are shown, and the teacher's retelling of the plot sounds.

Event progress

Music teacher: Today we will get acquainted with the life and musical work of Alexander Porfirievich Borodin. This is a Russian composer and talented chemist, scientist and teacher, poet and professor of medicine, conductor and music critic, active public figure.

In the course of the lesson, students are shown individual slides of the presentation about Borodin's Biography (Presentation 1).

Slides 1-4. The great chemist and composer A.P. Borodin.

Borodin had two passions since childhood - for chemistry and music.

V. V. Stasov, a music critic spoke of Borodin: “A. P. Borodin is equally powerful and talented in symphony, opera, and romance ... "

DI Mendeleev wrote about Borodin: "A first-class chemist to whom chemistry owes a lot."

Slides 5-7. Family and childhood of A.P. Borodin. Tsarskoe Selo.

On October 31 (November 12), 1833, a boy was born in Tsarskoe Selo near St. Petersburg, about which an entry appeared in the church book: “Panteleimon Church in St. Petersburg, 1833, October, thirty-first ... the courtyard Porfiry Ionov Borodin and his legal wife his Tatiana Grigorieva's son Alexander was born ”. But in this record, it is only true that a boy named Alexander was born. Sasha's real father was Prince Luka Stepanovich Gedianov, from an ancient Imeretian family, his mother was a soldier's daughter Avdotya Konstantinovna Antonova. The prince was nearly 60 years old and had a legitimate family in Moscow. The prince did not hope for anything, but they fell in love with him. So Alexander's parents lived as unmarried spouses for more than 10 years in love and harmony. That is why their son is legalized by the name of a courtyard, according to the birth certificate - he is a serf of his father. Luka Stepanovich always dreamed of a son and regretted that he could not give him his name. Before his death, he gave freedom to a serf boy. As a legacy to Avdotya Konstantinovna, he left a large house, and to his son - an ancient icon of St. Nicholas of Mirliki.

Sasha's mother was an intelligent, energetic woman, she doted on her son and spared no expense for his education. In view of the painful frailty of the boy, he was brought up at home, under the guidance of experienced teachers. Mother loved to play the guitar in her free time. Then the son sat down at her feet and listened, enchanted, to the wonderful sounds of the guitar and the singing of the mother. Noticing this passion for music, Avdotya Konstantinovna invited the teacher to teach him how to play the flute.

Music page: the teacher sings a short song on the block flute.

Soon there was a desire to write music myself. At the age of 9, a talented boy composed a small piano piece “Helen Polka”, at the age of 13 - a concert for flute with piano accompaniment. And in 1849 he managed to publish several pieces by the young composer.

Musical page: the teacher performs Borodin's "Polka"; the teacher and the rhythmic orchestra of grades 4 and 5 perform Borodin's Mazurka. Appendix 3, Appendix 4.

Slides 8-9. Studying at the Medico-Surgical Academy.

In the summer of 1850, Alexander Borodin entered the medical department of the Medical-Surgical Academy as a volunteer. The Medical-Surgical Academy, opened in St. Petersburg at the end of the 18th century, was the largest higher educational institution in Russia. A.P. Borodin, even during his studies, does not leave music. He attends musical evenings and concerts.

Slides 10-11. Borodin is a professor of medicine.

In 1856 Borodin graduated with excellent marks from the Medical-Surgical Academy and began working at the Second Land Hospital. He became a professor of medicine.

Slides 12-17. Borodin is a talented chemist.

He was able to return to his favorite occupation of chemistry only after passing the exam for the degree of doctor of medicine - his dissertation had a chemical orientation. In academic circles, they started talking about Borodin as a young, promising chemist. In 1859, Borodin was sent to the German city of Geldeiberg to improve his knowledge of chemistry.

Teacher: What character traits do you recognize in a person who combines both a love of music and an interest in science?

Student response: Talent, intelligence, education, curiosity, love of work ...

Teacher: All this is true, Borodin was just such an outstanding person. Thanks to these qualities, the Russian intelligentsia has earned respect not only in Russia, but throughout the world.

Slide 18. Meeting with Prototopova.

Music page: in the course of the story, the music teacher performs a fragment of Chopin's C sharp minor waltz (after the words “Chopin's work”) and a fragment of March Mendelssohn (after the words “they got married”).

Borodin owes the city of Heidelberg that he met his first and only love there, his future wife Ekaterina Sergeevna Prototopova - a faithful friend, a serious critic of his musical works, a passionate admirer of his talent. This is how it happened.

In Heidelberg, Alexander Porfirevich finds many acquaintances, makes new friends. Young scientists get together. This is how the Heidelberg circle was formed, which included Mendeleev, Sechenov, Botkin and other scientists. At the meetings of the circle, new discoveries in the field of science, literature, music were discussed, musical and literary evenings were organized. At one of these evenings, an acquaintance with the Russian writer Turgenev takes place.

Once the pianist Ekaterina Sergeevna Protopopova, who had recently arrived specially for this occasion, attended the evening. She played works by Chopin and Schumann. “While I was playing,” she recalled, “Borodin was at the piano and all turned into a hearing. At that time he still hardly knew Schumann, and Chopin, perhaps only a little more. On the very first day of his acquaintance, he described himself as an “ardent Mendelssohnist”. They were soon married.

Quartet No. 2, which the composer dedicated to his wife, is called the pearl of Russian classics. The composer called the first movement of the quartet “Nocturne”.

Borodin's nocturne from the piano suite is also unusually poetic. We will listen to him performed by a music teacher.

Musical page: the teacher asks the student to read the text against the background of the music: “Nocturne in translation from French - night. Lyrical and dreamy pieces inspired by the images of the night are called nocturne. "

The vault of heaven, burning with starry glory,
Mysteriously looks from the depths, -
And we sail, a burning abyss
Surrounded on all sides
F. Tyutchev.

Slides 20-21. "The Mighty Bunch".

The decisive year in Borodin's musical biography was 1862, when he met and became friends with Miliy Balakirev and his circle "The Mighty Handful", which included Caesar Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modest Mussorgsky. These were the heroes who glorified Russian music. Under their influence, Borodin began work on 1 symphony.

Slides 22-23. Symphonies.

In total, Borodin wrote three symphonies and one of them is called "Heroic".

Teacher: Let's remember the music of this symphony. Look at Vasnetsov's painting "Three Heroes" (students are shown a photograph of the painting). Listen to the beginning of the symphony while looking at this picture and match the words to the character of the music. What music?

Musical page: a short fragment of symphony No. 2 sounds.

Student response: Strong, courageous, stern, mighty, energetic, brave, heroic ...

Teacher: Well done. So the composer wanted to portray the greatness of his country, the strength of spirit and the courage of its defenders.

While in Jena (Germany), Borodin visited the theater, a concert from the works of F. Liszt, to which the author himself came. Learning from his business card that Borodin had arrived, Liszt quickly went out to meet him and, holding out his hand, said: "You have written an excellent symphony." Subsequently, Borodin described this meeting in his musical essay.

Slide 24. Borodin is a lyricist.

Borodin possessed the gift of a poet and sometimes wrote poetry.

I asked the free wind:
"What should I do to be young?"
The playing wind answered me:
"Be airy, like the wind, like smoke."
L asked the mighty sea:
"What is the great covenant of being?"
The resounding sea answered me:
"Always be full of sound like me!"
I asked the high sun:
"How can I break out brighter than the dawn?"
The sun didn't answer.
But the soul heard: "Burn!"

The gift of the poet did not appear immediately with Borodin. He was very fond of folk songs, and collected them, being in the villages. Once, having written a small piece, he could not find the appropriate words for the music and tried to write them himself. Thus, such vocal works as "The Sea Princess", "Song of the Dark Forest", "False Note", "Sea" and others appeared.

Slides 25-26. Songs and romances of Borodin on the verses of famous poets.

Musical page: the teacher sings the song-romance "The Beauty-Fisherwoman" to the words of G. Heine. Appendix 5

Slides 27-30. Opera "Prince Igor".

In 1869 Borodin was carried away by the plot “The Lay of Igor's Regiment”, proposed by V.V. Stasov. The epos of the XII century "The Lay of Igor's Regiment" describes the unsuccessful campaign of the Novgorod-Seversky Prince Igor against the Polovtsy in 1185. The composer, with the participation of Stasov, creates a libretto for a new opera - "Prince Igor".

In 1887, the sudden death of this remarkable scientist and talented composer occurs. His body is buried in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra next to the body of Borodin's friend, composer M.P. Musorgsky.

The work on the opera "Prince Igor", which dragged on for 18 years, was never completed by the author. After Borodin's death, his friends Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov finished the opera. The opera consists of four acts with a prologue. The premiere of the opera took place on October 23 (November 4), 1890 at the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theater.

Teacher: now you will see a musical and literary composition based on the opera "Prince Igor", prepared by students in grades 6-10.

During the performance of the composition, individual slides of the presentation about Borodin's opera "Prince Igor" are shown (Presentation 2).

Slides 1-6. Introduction.

In the work of Borodin, the theme of the greatness of the Russian people, love for the motherland, love of freedom is clearly passed. His music is distinguished by epic breadth, masculinity, at the same time, deep lyricism. The most significant work of Borodin is the opera "Prince Igor", which is an example of the national heroic epic in music.

The opera "Prince Igor" develops the traditions of Glinka's epic opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila". The libretto of the opera was written by the composer Borodin himself. The source for the libretto was a wonderful monument of ancient Russian literature "The Lay of Igor's Campaign", which tells about the unsuccessful campaign of Prince Igor against the Polovtsians.

The teacher introduces pre-prepared students, naming their roles in the composition:

Slide 7. The main characters of the opera: Igor Svyatoslavovich, Prince of Seversky. Baritone.

Slide 8. Yaroslavna, his wife. Soprano.

Slide 9. Konchak, Polovtsian Khan. Bass.

Slide 10. Vladimir Igorevich (son of Prince Igor); Konchakovna (daughter of the Polovtsian Khan).

Slide 11. The action takes place: in the prologue, in the first and fourth acts - in the city of Putivl, in the second and third acts - in the Polovtsian camp in 1185.

Slide 12. Prologue. On the square in Putivl, the squad and army, ready to march against the Polovtsians, await Prince Igor. The people call Igor, princes, warriors and wish them victory.

Slide 13. Suddenly it gets dark, a solar eclipse begins. Everyone is frightened by this “God's banner” and advises Igor to postpone the campaign.

Slide 14. However, Igor is confident in the rightness of his cause - he goes to defend Russia.

Slide 15. Choir.

To the accompaniment of the teacher, the students sing in chorus:

Glory to the red sun, glory, glory in the sky with us!

Slide 16. One student performs a melodic recitation of three lines, then the choir sings again:

From the great Don to the curvature
Glory rings across the Polovtsian steppes.
In the lands of the unknown, they sing glory to you!
Glory to the red sun, glory, glory in the sky with us!
Glory to Prince Igor, glory, glory with us in Russia!

The students are shown a video. The video can be obtained from the author of the article.

Slide 17. Action one. The first picture. Prince's court of Vladimir Galitsky. The roaming servants glorify the prince. Galitsky loves to pretend and make noise. However, he lacks power and wealth. He dreams of taking Igor's place.

Slide 18. To the accompaniment of the teacher, the student performs a fragment of Galitsky's aria:

If only I would wait for the honor
Sit down as a prince on Putivl,
L b did not grieve,
I would know how to live!

I would have repaired everyone.
How I would have liked it.
I would fix the court for everyone,
He gave wine to everyone. Drink, drink, drink, walk!

Slide 19. Pupils (girls and boy) act out a scene:

Girls run into the yard. They complain to Galitsky about his confidants, who stole their girlfriend. The princess expresses to Galitsky her displeasure with his behavior. Galitsky is defiant. He threatens to remove Igor from Putivl. Yaroslavna drives him away in anger.

Slide 20. Scene two. Yaroslavna is seized with anxiety: for a long time there is no news about Prince Igor and the squad, heavy forebodings are coming true. She thinks about her husband with love, longing and sadness squeeze her heart.

Slide 21. Under the accompaniment of the teacher, the student reads the words of Yaroslavna:

I will fly a cuckoo on the Danube,
Wet a silk sleeve in the Kajala River
In the morning the prince has bloody wounds on his mighty body.

Slide 22. Boyars bring sad news to Yaroslavna: the Russian army is defeated, Igor and Vladimir are in captivity.

Slide 23. To the accompaniment of the teacher, all students (boys) perform a fragment of the boyar choir:

We are bringing you, princess.

Slide 24.

Take courage, princess, bad news
We are bringing you, princess.

Slide 25. The student beats the gong - depicts the ringing of a bell.

The ringing of the alarm bell heralds danger - the Polovtsians are approaching Putivl; a fire starts. The boyars are determined to defend Putivl from the enemy.

Slide 26. Action two. In the Polovtsian camp, Prince Igor languishes in captivity.

Slide 27. Prince Igor is not sleeping. Heavy thoughts oppress him. It is not easy to survive the shame of defeat and captivity. It is difficult to come to terms with the thought of a homeland enslaved by the enemy, groaning from robberies and fires. Igor passionately longs for freedom: then he can, having gathered a new army, defeat the Polovtsi and liberate Russia. With great fondness, he recalls his wife and closest friend - Yaroslavna.

Slide 28. To the accompaniment of the teacher, the student sings a fragment of Prince Igor's aria: Appendix 7.

Oh give, give me freedom,
I will be able to atone for my shame;
I will save my honor and glory,
I will save Russia from the enemy!

You are alone, dove, fret.
You alone won’t blame.
You will understand everything with a sensitive heart,
You will forgive me everything.

Slide 29. Stealthily approaches Igor Ovlur, a baptized Polovtsian. He offers the prince his help, persuading him to flee from captivity. However, pride does not allow Igor to agree to a secret escape. Igor refuses.

Slide 30. Khan Konchak comes out from behind the tent. With great respect for his captive, he tries to alleviate his fate and even offers to release him altogether - only on the condition that Igor does not raise his sword against his army.

Slide 31. To the accompaniment of the teacher, the student performs a fragment of Khan Konchak's aria:

I am brave, I am brave, I do not know fear,
Everyone is afraid of me, everything trembles around.
But you were not afraid of me, you did not ask for mercy, prince.

Ah, not your enemy, but your faithful ally,
And a reliable friend, and your brother
I wanted to be, you trust me!

Slide 32. But Igor does not hide the fact that as soon as he breaks free from captivity, he will gather a new army and will again fight with the Polovtsy.

Slides 33–34. At the behest of Konchak, Polovtsian captives and captives entertain Igor with oriental dances - now smooth, languid, full of bliss, now swift, fiery.

Slide 35. Pupils, together with the teacher, perform the choir of Polovtsian slave girls:

Fly away on the wings of wind
You are to the native land, our native song,
There, where we sang you freely,
Where it was so comfortable for you and me.

There, under the sultry sky.
The air is full of bliss
There, under the dialect of the sea,
The mountains are asleep in the clouds.

Slides 37–38.

The sun shines so bright there
Flooding native mountains with light,
Roses bloom magnificently in the valleys,
And nightingales sing in the green forests.

Slides 39-40.

The sun is so bright there
Sweet grapes are growing.
Be free there, song.
You go there and fly away!

Slide 41. Action three. Igor decides to escape. Ovlur prepares horses - for the prince, prince and himself.

Slide 42. Konchakovna appears at the last moment. She begs Vladimir to stay or take her with him. Vladimir is indecisive. In despair, Konchakovna raises the alarm. Prince Igor and Ovlur manage to hide.

The Cumans, who fled, demand the death of Vladimir, but Konchak decides otherwise: “If the falcon flew to the nest, we will entangle the falcon with a red maiden.” Leading Konchakovna to the prince, he says: "Here's your wife, Vladimir!"

The slide show is paused.

Fourth action. In Putivl, on the city wall, Yaroslavna mourns her husband. She no longer believes that she will see him. Turning to the wind, the Dnieper, the sun, Yaroslavna expects an answer from them - where is Igor, what is wrong with him? Yaroslavna looks around with longing - at the burnt-out villages, abandoned arable lands.

The students are shown a video. The video file can be obtained from the author of the article.

Slide 43. Suddenly two horsemen appear in the distance. In one of them, the princess recognizes Igor. Finally, happiness returned to her!

Slides 44–46. The drunken Skula and Eroshka, seeing Prince Igor, call the people with a bell ringing and are the first to report the good news - the prince has returned! The people call Prince Igor.

The slide show stops.

Teacher: dear students! You met the opera "Prince Igor" by the great Russian composer Alexander Porfirievich Borodin. This is one of the most famous works of Russian culture, an epic that tells about the historical events of our country that took place in the distant past.

BV Asafiev used to say: “Prince Igor” is an opera of high civilian sound. This is one of those works that make up the glory of Russian music.

End of lesson plan.

Sections: Music

“Russia is the only country
where you can do everything, no matter what ”.
N.N. Zinin

Targets and goals.

1. Expanding the horizons of students by attracting additional information from the field of musical art and chemistry.
2. On the example of the powerful personality of A.P. Borodin, the education of moral qualities: hard work, mutual assistance, a sense of pure active friendship, optimism, honesty, decency, conscientiousness, benevolence, selflessness.
3. On the example of the versatile creativity of A.P. Borodin, the education of a sense of patriotism, pride in Russia, which gave the world many talents.
4. Demonstrating that science and art are not really that far apart.

Methods:

• stimulation and motivation of educational and cognitive activity,
• organization and implementation of educational and cognitive activities.

Visual aids and TSO:

• Microsoft Power Point presentation "A.P. Borodin - a great chemist and composer";
• a collection of portraits of the composers of The Mighty Handful;
• a video from the opera "Prince Igor";
• phonogram,
• record player.

Musical material:

• A.P. Borodin (Prince Igor's aria);
• music recorded:
  "Fly away on the wings of the wind" - from the opera "Prince Igor",
  "Why have I upset you" - a romance,
  a fragment from the 1st string quartet;
• handout for students about Borodin "Entertaining facts".

Handout:

• entertaining facts from the life of A.P. Borodin
• colored pencils, paints, markers
• quiz based on the opera "Prince Igor"

During the classes

I.Organizing time:

1) Greetings, roll call;
2) Emotional setting;
3) Providing students with visual aids and handouts;
4) Information about the topic and objectives of the lesson.

II. Homework check; checking the previously studied material: fill in the table, whose music formed the basis of the literary content - Appendix No. 1;

III. Learning new material: We have completed the homework check. It is good that you remember a lot of the previously studied material. Let's calculate how many points each of you earned. With further active work in the lesson, you can improve your performance.

Warm-up: questions and answers - Appendix # 2

Teacher.

Today in the lesson we will get acquainted with the work of an outstanding teacher, creator of organic chemistry and a brilliant composer.

Who is he a composer or a chemist?

Alexander Porfirevich Borodin

Two passions - for chemistry and music - owned Borodin from childhood. Perhaps in the history of human culture there was no second creator who managed to achieve so much in such seemingly incompatible areas of activity.

Interesting facts

(handout) students get acquainted in advance with the facts from the life of the composer and talk about it in the lesson.

1st student. Absent-mindedness of Borodin.

The composer and chemist Alexander Porfirevich Borodin was a very absent-minded person. Once he invited guests to his place. There was a lot of music, then dinner with friendly conversation. Suddenly Borodin gets up and begins to dress. He was asked: "Where are you going, Alexander Porfirevich?" He was surprised: “How is it where? Home! It's late, and I have a lecture tomorrow ... "

2nd student. Don't worry about me ...

Once in his youth, Borodin with a friend was returning from a home musical evening in which both young men took part: Borodin played the flute, his friend played the violin. It was already quite late, the lights flickered faintly. Borodin, thinking about something, walked in front, and his friend, who was falling asleep on the way, was somewhat behind. Suddenly some strange and incomprehensible noise, and then a cry made the friend startle.

- Hey! He called, but no one answered him. Borodin disappeared ...

The frightened young man froze, listening, and a minute later he heard the sounds of a flute ... The amazing thing was that they came from somewhere under the ground. It turned out that in the darkness Borodin stumbled and fell into some deep hole.

- Alexander, are you all right? - shouted down a friend.

“I don’t know yet,” the young musician responded, “but, thank God, the flute seems to be intact!

3rd student. Statements about Borodin

"A first-class chemist, to whom chemistry owes a lot ...", "Equally powerful and talented both in symphony, in opera, and in romance ..." and the same person, about his contemporary - Alexander Porfirievich Borodin.

“Ah, this is the same Borodin whom composers consider a chemist and chemists a composer,” contemporaries said about him.

“Unfortunately, the academic service, committees and laboratory, and partly household chores, terribly distracted Borodin from the great cause,” VV Stasov complained.

“Borodin would have stood even higher in chemistry, would have brought more benefits to science, if music had not distracted him too much from chemistry,” wrote DI Mendeleev.

4th student. Childhood. The scene is St. Petersburg of Gogol's times.

- Fire! This child is impossible! I am leaving you! - exclaimed the governess. Sasha ran to one of his devilish vessels, threw something at it, and the smoke turned from gray to yellow-green.

Ding-ding-ding - some phial rang by itself, something dripped through a tube from another overturned and hunchbacked vessel - it means that now something else will boil or explode.

- Here's what I wanted to show you, - said Sasha to his mother. - You have never seen this, it is a surprise for you. Here! How do you like it? (Shows crystals of copper salt.)

- Looks like sugar ... Needles, cubes, but they shine like diamonds! How did you do all this? Blinded such tiny hands with your hands?

- These, mother, miraculous stones are crystals. Nature itself created, from God, well, I helped a little.

- You really play, if from God. Yes, you did not sleep with us, I only ask for one thing, I will somehow come to terms with the smoke and the stench.

- In chemistry, mother, and the stench is from God, - said Alexander with importance.

No, don't get through to Sasha. Reads, and then to the laboratory. One room is cramped for him, already all over the apartment wonderful, it is not clear why dishes, powders, liquids have settled. To solder, to bend softened glass, to turn liquid into crystals, from one as if by magic to make another, not at all similar. With a wave of the hand, give birth to a flame from the cold, and ice from the heat. To create, to create something that was not just now and suddenly became, as music is created out of nothing, out of air and light, out of sadness and a sweet, most obscure dream.

5th student.

The governess once took Sasha for a walk to the Semyonovsky parade ground. From the sound regimental band he had a shock almost to the point of fainting.

Something happened to his knees, they buckled when the march broke out, and the world changed. The houses were lined up and illuminated differently, the air became different, the sky was heard in breadth and depth. Returning home, he, so soft and meek, flatly refused lunch, saying: "Do not bother me!" - in Russian, in German, in French. For three hours, hungry and unrecognizable, he sat at the piano. Then he invited mother and governess and played a military march, which he heard in the square.

Teacher.

The brass band has three groups of instruments: brass, wood and percussion.

Example - orchestra sound.

Sasha Borodin learned to play on flute, cello, piano,

and then he began to compose music: at the age of 9 it was the polka "Helen", at the age of 13 - a small concert for the flute. At the age of 16, two works were published: a fantasy for piano - solo based on the music of I. Gummel and the etude "Stream".

In 17 years Borodin perfectly passes the exams for the certificate of maturity at the First St. Petersburg Gymnasium, and in September he enters the medical department of the Medical-Surgical Academy as a volunteer. This academy, opened in St. Petersburg at the end of the 18th century, by the time Borodin entered it, was a large higher educational institution in Russia and a prominent center of natural science thought. Among its professors were world-famous scientists: surgeon N.I. Pirogov, chemist N.N.Zinin, embryologist and geographer K.M.Ber, zoologist F.F.Brandt.

V 20 years there is an acquaintance of Alexander Borodin with the professor of chemistry Nikolai Nikolaevich Zinin. This is what the conversation took place between them at that time.

Zinin's attitude to Borodin's passion for music.

Borodin brought music paper to the laboratory several times and practiced. Zinin noticed this and categorically stated: “Whoever chases two hares will catch a dead chicken! Do not think that I am jealous of you for music. It's not about me, it's about you. If you are seven spans in your forehead, and start scattering, and you get zilch. Chemistry is jealous of you. She is a strict lady and is not going to share her servants with anyone. You have to choose: either she or these muses of yours. "

Borodin faced the question of choice. Quit music- it's all the same that, of your own free will, you forget how to speak. Because music is a gift of speech, the most unusual, the most complete and expressive. Quitting music is like blindfolding yourself for life and forgetting that there are colors that can only be found in it. And also music - space and depth, take them away - the Earth will become poorer, as if leaving a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional, flat one. He will be faithful to both science and music, since his powers are infinite, as it seemed to him.

Imagine the musical atmosphere of that time. Our time is characterized by passive consumption of music through players, tape recorders, computers. At the same time, home music making was widespread. Live music sounded everywhere - from modest rooms to living rooms and lounges. It was chamber music, i.e. music for small rooms where works were performed for violins, cello; there were ensembles - trios, quartets.

Teacher: Now you will hear the "String Quartet No. 1" fragment.

I would like you to draw a musical image of peace and silence in your notebooks using various color schemes.

Hearing. "String Quartet No. 1"(analysis of the listened work)

Warm up. Dynamic pause.

Teacher.

The music was not kinder and more agreeable to chemistry. The music demanded its own directly and harshly. You can say everything with music without being ashamed or hiding - here I am, here is the world and my country, as I see them. Architecture is immovable, like painting and sculpture. The meaning of music is movement. This is her blood relationship with running time, and therefore with history.

The main business of Borodin's life was opera "Prince Igor".

The plot is taken from "The Lay of Igor's Campaign" - the first Russian literary work, which tells about the heroic youth of Russia, it contains a grandiose idea of ​​its unity. In the Lay, Russia and the East are an eternal collision, an eternal neighborhood, two elements that cannot be separated, and both are in the nature of Borodin. The fact is that among his ancestors was Prince Gedea, who came from the horde under Tsar Ivan the Terrible, received holy baptism and was named Prince Nicholas.

Borodin worked on the opera for 21 years, but did not manage to finish it. His friends did it for him: N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov and his student A.K. Glazunov. Maria Vasilievna Dobroslavina, a friend of the Borodin family, assessed it this way: "What a pure, active and wonderful friendship - to disassemble mountains of drafts, sketches, sketches, combine them with ready-made scenes, build everything that the author did not complete."

Now the class will sound Prince Igor's aria from the opera "Prince Igor" (remember - what is an aria?). Answers guys. In this aria, Prince Igor he experiences his defeat, remembers his beloved wife Yaroslavna, who is waiting for him in Putivl, and reflects on the future.

Analysis of the listened work.

He died instantly, from a broken heart, during a masquerade arranged by him for everyone's fun in his own apartment.

Tall, stately, of a heroic physique, he was a cheerful man with a good disposition. It seemed that Borodin would live a long time - there were so many plans ahead. But the opera "Prince Igor", the Third Symphony remained unfinished ... And yet, how much he did!

Merits of A.P. Borodin to the Fatherland:

X and M and I

• Aldol condensation reaction.
• Opera "Prince Igor"
• Getting benzidine.
• "Borodin's reaction".
• Compaction reaction of aldehydes.
• 42 scientific works.

Music

• Opera "Prince Igor"
• Three Symphonies
• Two quartets
• Suite for piano
• Opera-farce "Bogatyrs"
• 18 romances

Teacher.

The mighty mind of a scientist, the genius of a composer, literary talents - he did not bury a single talent in the ground, he developed everything and gave it to his people and humanity. He was handsome, kind, witty, always full of life and energy.

Borodin combined in himself what is usually considered incompatible. The question involuntarily arises: how could he be both a chemist and a composer? After all, these are such different, far from one another areas. But are they as distant as they seem? The sun of the creative mind illuminates the way for both science and art when they are looking for the truth of life.

Choir "Glory" on the blackboard photo of the big choir

Going to chant

Objective: the formation of singing skills, clear articulation, diction, correct breathing, the ability to sing in chorus, solo.

Song "You are a man" composer E. Krylatov.

Teacher.

Outcome:

• today in the lesson we met the outstanding composer and scientist Alexander Porfirievich Borodin,
• learned his services to the Fatherland and music,
• listened to musical fragments of the composer's work,
• got acquainted with the symphony orchestra.

We learned that chemistry and music were an integral part in the life of a composer who managed to achieve so much in such seemingly incompatible fields of activity.

Evaluation of the effectiveness of the lesson.

Before explaining the new material, I explained to the students that for each correct answer, students receive an individual card with a drawing of a musical instrument from a symphony orchestra. The student with the most cards scores five points.

House, job: find the names of composers whose music was associated with science, medicine, and military affairs.

And in 1859, Alexander Borodin was sent to study chemistry in the German city of Heidelberg in the laboratory of Professor Emil Erlenmeyer. The life of young scientists in Heidelberg proceeded in intense scientific work. And in the evenings they gathered with friends and indulged in their favorite pastime - music.

In Germany, Alexander Borodin met Ekaterina Sergeevna Protopopova, a talented pianist, and in 1863 she became his wife. Highly appreciating her husband's composing talent, Ekaterina Sergeevna had the most beneficial influence on his work.

All his time, Alexander Borodin divided between scientific work, professorship, music and social activities, and he devoted himself to all this with the same enthusiasm and love. In 1862, returning to Russia, Borodin was appointed professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Medical-Surgical Academy, and since 1863, Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Forest Academy. Since 1864 - he is an ordinary professor. Since 1874 - the head of the chemical laboratory, and since 1877 - the academician of the Medico-Surgical Academy.