Read the text. Decide if the statements are true, false or not stated. The Story of a Little Boy Who Was Forced to Practise. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in the lovely town of Bonn, on the river Rhine, December 16, 1770. The house in which he spent his boyhood is still standing. It is now the Beethoven House, or Museum, filled with memories of the great composer. There you may see music pages written by him, letters, medals, instruments; even his ear trumpet is there. Beethoven’s father was a singer at the Chapel of the Elector. He was not a good father, for he did not care to work enough to make his family comfortable. But the mother loved her boy with all her heart. Ludwig was only four years old when he began to study music. Like children of today, he shed many a tear over the first lessons. In the beginning, his father taught him to play the piano and the violin and forced him to practise. At school, he learned, just as we do today, reading, writing, arithmetic, and later on, Latin. While Ludwig was in school he played at a concert for the first time. He was then eight years old. Two years later he had composed quite many pieces. Then the little boy studied with a teacher named Christian Gottlob Neefe, who took a real interest in him. Then with the organ lessons, there were other lessons in Harmony. So rapidly did the boy improve that his teacher said one day: “If he goes on as he has begun, he will be a second Mozart.” Our young hero of thirteen was surely busy every hour of the day. He played in an orchestra. On his sixteenth birthday, he set out from Bonn to Vienna, where Mozart lived. Vienna had given him wonderful happiness. He met Mozart and Mozart gave him some lessons in сomposition. Everywhere in Vienna Beethoven was a welcome guest. He was proud (but in the right way), very honest, always straightforward and independent. But a strange fate touched him and took away his sense of hearing. From the time he was about thirty years old his hearing grew gradually worse. We must remember that he could hear his music only in his thoughts. TRUE FALSE NOT STATED The Beethoven House is now a museum. Ludwig began to study music at the age of four. He was born in Bonn on the River Thames. In his twenties Beethoven became deaf. Even as a little boy he composed music. Beethoven met Mozart and gave him some lessons in сomposition.

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Read the text. Decide if the statements are true, false or not stated.
The Story of a Little Boy Who Was Forced to Practise.
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in the lovely town of Bonn, on the river Rhine, December 16, 1770. The house in which he spent his boyhood is still standing. It is now the Beethoven House, or Museum, filled with memories of the great composer. There you may see music pages written by him, letters, medals, instruments; even his ear trumpet is there.
Beethoven’s father was a singer at the Chapel of the Elector. He was not a good father, for he did not care to work enough to make his family comfortable. But the mother loved her boy with all her heart. Ludwig was only four years old when he began to study music. Like children of today, he shed many a tear over the first lessons. In the beginning, his father taught him to play the piano and the violin and forced him to practise. At school, he learned, just as we do today, reading, writing, arithmetic, and later on, Latin.
While Ludwig was in school he played at a concert for the first time. He was then eight years old. Two years later he had composed quite many pieces. Then the little boy studied with a teacher named Christian Gottlob Neefe, who took a real interest in him. Then with the organ lessons, there were other lessons in Harmony. So rapidly did the boy improve that his teacher said one day: “If he goes on as he has begun, he will be a second Mozart.”
Our young hero of thirteen was surely busy every hour of the day. He played in an orchestra. On his sixteenth birthday, he set out from Bonn to Vienna, where Mozart lived. Vienna had given him wonderful happiness. He met Mozart and Mozart gave him some lessons in сomposition. Everywhere in Vienna Beethoven was a welcome guest. He was proud \(but in the right way\), very honest, always straightforward and independent.
But a strange fate touched him and took away his sense of hearing. From the time he was about thirty years old his hearing grew gradually worse. We must remember that he could hear his music only in his thoughts.

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- TRUE
- FALSE
- NOT STATED
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- The Beethoven House is now a museum.
- Ludwig began to study music at the age of four.
- He was born in Bonn on the River Thames.
- In his twenties Beethoven became deaf.
- Even as a little boy he composed music.
- Beethoven met Mozart and gave him some lessons in сomposition.

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