Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was born on December 17th 1770 in Bonn, but he (1).................................. to Vienna, Austria in 1792, and lived there until his death in 1827. Beethoven showed his (2).............................. talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven. Beethoven is regarded to as (3)................................ of the "three Bs" (along with Bach and Brahms). His best-known (4).................................. include 9 symphonies, 5 concertos for piano, 32 piano sonatas, and 16 string quarters. He also (5)............................... chamber music, choral works (including the celebrated Missa solemis), and songs. He was also a key figure in the transition from the 18th century musicial classicism to 19th century romanticism.

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was born on December 17^th 1770 in Bonn, but he (1).................................. to Vienna, Austria in 1792, and lived there until his death in 1827. Beethoven showed his (2).............................. talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven. Beethoven is regarded to as (3)................................ of the "three Bs" (along with Bach and Brahms). His best-known (4).................................. include 9 symphonies, 5 concertos for piano, 32 piano sonatas, and 16 string quarters. He also (5)............................... chamber music, choral works (including the celebrated Missa solemis), and songs. He was also a key figure in the transition from the 18^th century musicial classicism to 19^th century romanticism.

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Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was born on December 17^th 1770 in Bonn, but he (1)....to Vienna, Austria in 1792, and lived there until his death in 1827. Beethoven showed his (2)...... talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven. Beethoven is regarded as (3).....of the giants of classical music, he is occasinally referred to as (3).... of the ''three Bs'' (along with Bach and Brahms). His best-known (4).....include 9 symphonies, 5 concertos for piano, 32 piano sonatas, and 16 string quarters. He also (5).....chamber music, choral works( including the celebrated Missa solemnics), and songs. He was also a key figure in the transition from the 18^th century musical classicsm to 19^th century romanticism

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Ludwig van Beethoven (December 16, 1770 to March 26, 1827) was a German pianist and (1) widely considered the greatest of all (2) , whose innovative compositions combined vocals (3) instruments, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet. He is the crucial transitional figure (4) the Classical and Romantic ages of Western music. Beethoven's (5) life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and some of his most (6) works were composed during the last 10 (7) of his life, when he was quite (8) to hear. He died at the age of 56.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven, born in 17 December 1770, was a well-known German composer and pianist. At an early age, Beethoven showed his musical talents. His father Johann van Beethoven, together with composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe, taught him about music. When Beethoven was 21 years old, he moved to Vienna. Here he started studying composition with Joseph Haydn. He soon became popular as a pianist. Unfortunately, Beethoven had problems with his hearing by his late 20s. In the last ten years of his life, he was almost deaf. In 1811, he stopped performing in public but he continued to compose. Many of his wonderful pieces of music came from the last 15 years of hif life. He lived in Vienna until he dies in 26 March 1827. His best-known compositions include 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, 1 violin concerto, and 32 piano sonatas. The list goes on. Beethoven always remains as one of the most famous and influential composers all over the world.

______ 1. Beethoven is only famous as a composer.

______ 2. When Beethoven was small, he studied composition with Joseph Haydn.

______ 3. Beethoven had problems with his hearing by his late 20s.

______ 4. In 1811, Beethoven stopped performing and composing.

______ 5. He lived in Vienna until his death.

PABLO PICASSO

everyone knows the artist picasso. his ideas changed the world od art forever. during his lifetime, he became famous and very rich. now his paintings are some of the most expensive pictures in the world. one painting sold for $ 106.5 million in new york.

picasso was born in spain in 1881. his first word was 'pencil' , and he could draw beautifully from an early age. first, he had drawing lessons from his father . then, he went to art college when he was only 13 years old. three years later, he was bored and stopped going to classe. finally, at the age of 19, he moved to paris - the art capital of the world . he got married twice and had four chirlden.

picasso often changed his style od paniting . fo example, after his best friend died, the sad artist pained only in blue . then he began to use a lot of pinks and oranges . later, he started to paint using shapes - a style later called ' cubism', in his life, he produced over 50,000 works of art, he never retired, but pained nearly every day until his death at the age of 91.

VINCENT CAN GOGH

vincent can gogh is a very famous painter. everyone in the world knows his work, and his paintings sell for millions of dollars. but he wasn't famos when he was alive. and he only sold one painting before he died.

van gogh was born in the netherlands in 1853. he has a difficult life because he suffered from mental illness. he never got married. he didn't begin to draw and paint seriously until he was 27, and he died just ten years later. but in that time, he produced more than 2,000 paintings and drwaings.

at first, van gogh painted poor people and used only dark colours. later he moved to the south of france. he loved the sunlight there, and his style of painting became colourful and exciting. but van gogh was often depressed and his mental illness became worse, first , he cut off part of his own ear, and then in 1890, he shot himselt.

look at the reading strategy. then read the texts again. answer the questions for both van gogh and picasso

1. when was he born ?

2. where was he born ?

3. which countries did he live in ?

4. was he famous when he lived ?

5. was he rich or poor ?

6. how much do his paintings cost now?

7. when did he start to draw or paint ?

8. did he get married and have chirlden?

9. how many works of art did he produce?

10. how old was he when he died?

Mozart, who was born on January 27, 1756 in the Austrian city of Salzburg, was neither the first nor the last child prodigy, but he was certainly the greatest. He was born into a moderately prosperous family where his unmatched musical genius made itself known extremely early. Mozart began learning to play the harpsichord at three and his earliest known work was composed in 1761 when he was five, the age at which he also first appeared in p ublic. From the age of six, when his father took him on the first foreign tour, Mozart toured the courts and musical centres of Austria, Germany, France, England, Holland, Switzerland and Italy. It has been calculated that Mozart spent almost a third of his short life ( he died at the age of 35) travelling. As Mozart matured, he continued to tour and give concerts. Mozart also wrote a lot of operas. His first opera,

Mitridate, Re di Ponto, was perfomed in Milan when he was 14, and it was one of many successes in the life of the genius.

1.How rich was Mozart's family?->..........

2.When did he take the first step into the world of music as a composer?->........

3.What did he do on his tour to some major Europe countries?->............

4.Why is it possible to name Mozart'' A travelling composer''?->............

5.What expression in the passage means''an exceptionally clever child''?->...........