Упр.8 Unit 6 Секция 5 ГДЗ English Михеева 8 класс
8 A. Read the text and say which of these facts were not mentioned in it.1) What people thought of Tchaikovsky’s music in his time and what they think of it today.2) How Tchaikovsky started composing music.3) Tchaikovsky’s career in music.4) Tchaikovsky’s student’s years.5) The ballets he composed.6) The operas he composed.7) What countries the composer visited in Europe.8) The composer’s last music piece.Текст аудирования:P.
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8 A. Read the text and say which of these facts were not mentioned in it.
1) What people thought of Tchaikovsky’s music in his time and what they think of it today.
2) How Tchaikovsky started composing music.
3) Tchaikovsky’s career in music.
4) Tchaikovsky’s student’s years.
5) The ballets he composed.
6) The operas he composed.
7) What countries the composer visited in Europe.
8) The composer’s last music piece.
Текст аудирования:
P. I. Tchaikovsky and His Music
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840—1893) is one of the most important figures in the history of music. He wrote some of the best loved melodies of all times. His ballet music is some of the happiest and most tuneful1 music ever written.
By the end of his life, in the late 19th century Tchaikovsky was known as the greatest living composer. However, at the beginning of his career, his compositions were not always well received. Tchaikovsky’s music, which is so popular today, was at the time considered to be very modern and different. Some people thought it was too sentimental and emotional. But audiences everywhere came to love Tchaikovsky’s musical style which was full of feeling and could excite them.
Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, Russia, in 1840. Young Peter showed an early interest in music. He was given piano lessons at the age of five and very soon he learned to play better than his teacher. His mother died when he was fourteen, he felt unhappy and began to compose music which helped him. At the age of twenty-three he became a full-time student at St. Petersburg Conservatory. He graduated from it and was offered a post at the Moscow Conservatory, where he taught for the next twelve years. Then he devoted himself to composing.
His music was often inspired by Russian folk tunes and includes some of the world’s best-loved melodies such as the “Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture” and his First Piano Concerto. His ballets — “Swan Lake”, “Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker” — are still among the most popular ballets.
Between 1888 and 1893 Tchaikovsky visited Europe and the USA conducting his own works. In 1893 he conducted the first performance of his Sixth Symphony. He called it the “Pathetique” (full of feeling), saying, “It is based on so much emotion and feeling that when I composed this work, I found myself crying.” Tchaikovsky considered this to be his greatest composition; it was also his last. Less than two weeks later he was dead.