No matter what official position the musician held, he has always been, first of all, a composer. Boris Alexandrovich wrote symphonies, concertos for piano, clarinet, trombone and orchestra, string quartets, piano pieces, music for plays, and operettas. It is safe to say that the main place in the composer's work was occupied by military songs: "March of the United Armies", "Youth of the World", "Long live our country". Boris Alexandrov's most famous work is the operetta ”The Wedding in Malinovka” (1936), which was adapted into a film in 1968. The ballet "The Tale of Lefty from Tula” based on the work by Nikolai Leskov is also widely known. 
Creative activity of Boris Alexandrov was primarily connected with the leadership and development of the Twice-Red Banner Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Army named after A.V. Alexandrov.

Today, on the 120^th birth anniversary of the Soviet and Russian composer, conductor and teacher Boris Alexandrov, we offer you to listen to a musical selection made up of works performed by the Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble, which is posted in the museum Phonotheque.

Boris Alexandrov was the son of the Soviet composer Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, the author of the music of the USSR National Anthem (the same melody has been the Anthem of the Russian Federation since 2000). A.V. Alexandrov came from Ryazan peasants, he loved music since childhood. In 1913, the young man graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in composition, and three years later – in singing. Since 1918, Alexander Vasilyevich was engaged in teaching, then led ensembles, founded the twice-Red Banner Order of the Red Star song and Dance ensemble of the Soviet (now Russian) Army, which has been named after its creator since 1946.

Boris Alexandrov received his primary musical education at the Tver Music School. Since 1912, Boris sang in his father's choir, in 1918-1921 – in the children's choir of the Bolshoi Theater, later – in the choir of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. From 1923 to 1929, Boris Alexandrov led various music clubs and taught theoretical subjects at a music college in Moscow.
B.A. Alexandrov graduated from the A.N. Scriabin Music College (nowadays, the Academic Music College at the Moscow Conservatory), in 1929 he graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory in composition under the direction of B.A. Alexandrov graduated from the A.N. Scriabin Music College (present. At the time, the Academic Music College at the Moscow Conservatory), in 1929 he graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory in composition under the direction of R.M. Glier.
From 1930 to 1937, – the conductor and head of the musical department of the Central Theater of the Red Army.
From 1933 to 1941, – a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of reading scores and orchestration.
In 1929-1930, – the conductor, from 1937 (with interruptions) – conductor and deputy art director, from 1946, after his father's death, – art director and conductor of the Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Army.

The repertoire of the song and dance ensemble includes about a hundred songs, – "The Red Army is the Soviet Army", "Long Live Our Country", "Song of Russia", "Soldiers Marched", "Victory Song" and many others are among them. As the head of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Army, B. Alexandrov toured almost the entire Soviet Union, travelled abroad about 70 times.
In 1942-1946, he was the founder and art director of the Soviet Song Ensemble of the All–Union Radio.

Boris Alexndrov is the author of the book of memoirs "The Song Calls" (Moscow, Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house, 1982), and a number of articles about music.

B.A. Alexandrov died in Moscow in June 1994, at the age of 89. He was buried next to his father at the Novodevichy cemetery.