Номер 1, страница 86 - гдз по английскому языку 11 класс учебник Афанасьева, Михеева

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Mikhail Glinka was the first Russian composer who became famous outside his country. People say that he's the father of Russian music. Glinka was the son of a rich merchant. He spent a lot of time traveling around Europe, where he learned about progressive trends in the music of the time. Anyhow, later on, he managed to find his own language in composition.

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer and a teacher of classical music. Born in Tikhvin, near Novgorod, to an aristocratic family, Nikolai showed talent for music from an early age. Nevertheless, he studied at the Russian Imperial Naval College in Saint Petersburg and then became an officer in the Russian fleet. Later, Rimsky-Korsakov became professor of composition at Saint Petersburg Conservatoire.

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Sergei Prokofiev is widely admired as one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. He was an only child. His mother was a pianist and her son's first music teacher. By the age of nine, he had composed his first opera. His compositions were famous for their originality. For some time, Prokofiev lived abroad in the USA, France and Germany. In nineteen thirty-four, he returned to his motherland.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in eighteen forty to a middle-class family. Like Schumann, a German composer who had a strong influence on him, Tchaikovsky studied law, but later entered Saint Petersburg Conservatoire, as he wanted to devote his life to music. He became one of the greatest composers that ever lived. A true romantic, he wrote music which was deeply Russian by nature.

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Dmitry Shostakovich was born in nineteen o six in Saint Petersburg. He began taking piano lessons at a very early age and became a winner of prestigious competitions. At the age of thirteen, he began to attend classes in the conservatoire. After finishing school, Shostakovich started earning money as a concert pianist. At the same time, he wrote compositions. His fifth symphony was a great success and remains one of his most liked works. His seventh symphony became symbolic. It's associated with Russian people fighting against Nazi aggression during the Second World War.