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Beethoven: a remarkable life
Symphony No. 9 was Beethoven’s last major piece of music in a vast body of works written throughout his remarkable life. As a 【小题1】 (gift) child, Beethoven was pushed by his father to study music day and night. Not long after, he began 【小题2】(appreciate) for his piano performances. By the time he was a teenager, he had already enjoyed a reputation as 【小题3】 wonderful young musician. Many important figures in the music world, including the brilliant musician Mozart, started making 【小题4】 (predict) about Beethoven’s extraordinary future. However, life took a sharp turn. In his late twenties, Beethoven suffered one of the 【小题5】 (bad) possible twists for a musician: he started to lose his hearing.
The loss of his hearing deeply 【小题6】 (depress) Beethoven. He was so upset that, at first, he wanted to keep it a secret. Even in his darkest moments, however, Beethoven never abandoned hope. 【小题7】 his hearing loss, he was determined to find a way to continue living a life full of music. He used a variety of hearing aids to try to increase the amount of sound he could take in. When 【小题8】 (compose) music at the piano, he would put one end of a pencil in his mouth and place the other end against the instrument so that he could feel the notes. 【小题9】 Beethoven was able to continue composing music, it became 【小题10】 (increase) difficult for him to perform in public. When Beethoven presented Symphony No. 9 in Vienna in 1824, it was his first time on stage in over ten years.