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Watching the Caravan: Borodine’s In the Steppes of Central Asia

Borodin completed his ‘musical picture’ In the Steppes of Central Asia in 1880. The symphonic poem was dedicated to that master of the genre, Franz Liszt. It depicts a crossing of the steppes of the Caucasus by a caravan of Central Asians, who are protected by a group of Russian soldiers.

Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia

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