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Vienna Vienna was one of the music centers of Europe during the classical period, and Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven were all
Vienna Vienna was one of the music centers of Europe during the classical period, and Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven were all
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Vienna
Vienna was one of the music centers of Europe during the classical period, and Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven were all active there. As the seat of the Holy Roman Empire (which included parts of present-day Austria, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Czech and Slovakia), it was a (51) cultural and commercial center (52) a cosmopolitan character. Its population of al most 250, 000 (in 1800) made Vienna the fourth largest city in Europe. All three (53) masters were born elsewhere, but they were drawn to Vienna to study and to seek (54) . In Vienna, Haydn and Mozart became close friends and influenced each other’s musical (55) Beethoven traveled to Vienna at sixteen to play for Mozart; at twenty-two, he returned to study with Haydn.
Aristocrats from all over the Empire spent the winter in Vienna, sometimes bringing their private (56) . Music was an important part of court life, and a good orchestra was a (57) of prestige. Many of the nobility were excellent musicians.
Much music was heard in private concerts where aristocrats and wealthy commoners played (58) professional musicians. Mozart and Beethoven often earned money by performing in these intimate concerts. The nobility (59) hired servants who could (60) as musicians. An advertisement in the Vienna Gazette of 1789 (61) : “Wanted, for a house of the gentry, a manservant who knows how to play the violin well.”
In Vienna there was also outdoor music, light and popular in (62) . Small street bands of wind and string players played at garden parties or under the windows of people (63) to throw (64) money. Haydn and Mozart wrote many outdoor entertainment (65) , which they called divertimentos or serenades. Vienna’s great love of music and its enthusiastic demand for new works made it the chosen city of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
选项
A、music
B、melody
C、pieces
D、series
答案
C
解析
此题属于词义辨析题。pieces意为“(艺术品,音乐等的)篇、幅、首等”,文中指海顿、莫扎特写了许多室外音乐,故选项C pieces正确。选项A music意为“音乐”;选项B melody意为“旋律,歌曲”,属单数名词,不能与句中的many连用;选项D series意为“连贯的东西、事件、系列”,如:a television series(电视连续剧)。
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