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About 150 years ago a German musician sat quietly at a concert in Vienna. They were playing for the first
time a new symphony (交响乐 ) he had composed (创作 ). At the end he turned to face the people at the
concert. They were clapping widely. 1
The musician was Beethoven, one of the greatest composers in the world. Deaf people have a hard time.
2
Even as a child Beethoven did not have a happy life. His father was a singer. But he was lazy and drank a
great deal. When the boy was only four, his father decided to make a musician of him. 3 Whenever he did
not put his heart into his practice, his father would be hard on him.
It is a wonder that the boy did not hate music. 4 When he was 17, he won high praise from Mozart,
a great Austrian composer. A few years later Beethoven went to Vienna to study under Haydn, another great