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1、www.readinga-MozartMozartA Reading AZ Level R Leveled BookWord Count:1,529Visit www.readinga- for thousands of books and materials.Written by Bertha E.BushIllustrated by Stephen MarchesiLEVELED BOOK RWritten by Bertha E.BushIllustrated by Stephen MarchesiMozartMozartLevel R Leveled Book Learning AZW
2、ritten by Bertha E.BushIllustrated by Stephen MarchesiAll rights reserved.www.readinga-CorrelationLEVEL RN3030Fountas&PinnellReading RecoveryDRAPhoto Credits:Page 20:F1online digitale Bildagentur GmbH/Alamy www.readinga-34Table of ContentsThe Toddler Pianist.4The Child Wonder.8The Poor Young Man.15T
3、he Requiem.17The Greatest Musician Who Ever Lived.20Glossary.22The Toddler PianistLeopold Mozart walked into the chapel in Salzburg,Austria,followed by his two small children.“Id like to sign my daughter Nannerl up for music lessons.She is eight years old,and I already believe she has quite a talent
4、 for music,”he said to the organist.The organist,Anton,smirked a bit,for he knew how Leopold could boast about his children.“So,when will you be signing up the little boy?”Anton asked.Mozart Level R56Leopold laughed at the joke,for little Wolfgang was only three years old.“Not for at least five year
5、sI think eight is certainly young enough.Little Wolfgangs fingers would barely be able to stretch over the keys.”The organist promised to sign Nannerl up.Before Leopold left,the organist called Nannerl over to the church piano.“Come,I will give you a beginner lesson,”he said.Nannerl ran over to her
6、father,and Wolfgang toddled happily after her.“Me too,Papa,me too!”he cried.“No,no,Wolfgang,you are too small,”said his father.“Pianos are not meant for little folks to touch,so please go outside and play.”Wolfgang turned around obediently.If his father had seen the disappointed look on little Wolfg
7、angs face,it would have broken his heart.Wolfgang went outside and played near the door of the church,but his every thought was on the piano.After Nannerl had finished,Wolfgang and Leopold went to speak with the organist again.Wolfgang crept up to the piano and put his little hands on the keyboard.H
8、e began to play the simple scales he had heard his big sister practicing.Mozart Level R78The sound entranced him,and he played the scales over and over,playing them exactly right.He forgot everything elsehe did not notice his father and sister standing behind him.He didnt even hear his father shouti
9、ng for the organist to come see.He was completely wrapped up in the music.He began changing the scales,even inventing simple tunes of his own.Leopold stared at his young son Wolfgang.The boy was a musical prodigy.The Child WonderMozart played music as naturally as he breathed.When he was four years
10、old,it took him only half an hour to learn a difficult piece of music that was written down.If he heard the piece,even if he heard it only once,he could memorize it instantly.When Wolfgang was five,Leopold and a friend came in to find him bent over a piece of paper and writing big,black notes,smeari
11、ng and splattering ink everywhere.“Wolfgang,what are you doing spoiling the nice,clean paper?”his father asked.Mozart Level R910“Papa,Im writing a concerto,”Mozart said,his little eyes shining.His father picked up the paper and laughed.But soon his amusement turned to amazement.It was a concerto,com
12、posed for several instruments.He could see that the notes were correct,despite the smears and blotches.“But Wolfgang,this music would be too difficult for anyone to play,”he said.“Oh,no,it would only take some practice.See,it goes like this,”said Wolfgang,and he ran to the piano.He placed his smudge
13、d paper on the music stand and began to play.His fathers friend had been laughinghed assumed Leopold was just playing along with Wolfgang.But now he saw that the child was a true wonder.“You ought to travel with him,”the friend suggested.“He should be playing for emperors,for kings and queens.”“Perh
14、aps I will,”said his father.Mozart Level R1112The following year,when Wolfgang was only six years old,he and Nannerl started on tour.Wherever Wolfgang went to play,people would giggle at him.He was so small compared to the big piano,and his feet couldnt even touch the floor.But when he began to play
15、,the audiences fell silent.His playing was perfect and beautiful.The first place they went to play was in Vienna,the capital of Austria.On the way,they stopped to visit a monastery in a little town.There was a great pipe organ in the chapel.“I want to play on it,”Wolfgang said.“Papa,explain the peda
16、ls to me.”Wolfgangs father helped his son onto the high stool.He was too small to even operate the pedals,so he walked across them instead.The music poured out of the chapel,growing more and more powerful.The monks,who had been at dinner,rushed into the room.Because Wolfgang was so small,the monks c
17、ould not see him,and they thought the organ was playing itself.“Its an angel!”they cried.“Such music must come from heaven!”Mozart Level R1314Wolfgang was also very charming.Everywhere he went,people were smitten with this little musician.The customs officials asked him why he came to Vienna.“I came
18、 to play the piano,”he said.“Why,youre no bigger than a chicken.You cant be old enough to play anything but a whistle.”“Ill show you,”Wolfgang said.He asked the officials to open the box containing his piano,and the little boy began to play right in the customs house.A crowd gathered around in awe.T
19、he head of customs immediately gave the order to let the Mozart family through without difficulty.After playing in Vienna,Wolfgang was invited to spend the day with the royal children.One of the princesses was the famous Marie Antoinette,who was just a little girl about Wolfgangs age.Wolfgang liked
20、her very much.She took him around the palace to show him all the wonderful riches.He was not used to such smoothly polished floors,and he slipped and fell.All the children laughed except Marie.After she helped him up,Wolfgang said,“When I am a man,I will marry you.”The princesss servant gasped.Then
21、Wolfgang put his arms around Marie and gave her a big kiss.“Dreadful!”cried the servant,for it was never,ever allowed for a common person to touch royalty.But Marie only laughed,took Wolfgangs hand,and gave him a kiss back.Mozart Level R1516The Poor Young ManWolfgang,his father,and his sister toured
22、 all around Europe.Wolfgangs fame grew,and he became a very handsome young man.But unfortunately,the life of a musician did not pay well.People were less impressed with his playing as he got older.After all,a six-year-old musician was a marvel,but a twenty-year-old musician was nothing new.For his e
23、ntire adult life,Wolfgang Mozart was very poor.Once,a friend came to visit him and found Wolfgang and his young wife waltzing around their apartment.They were not dancing for joy;they were dancing to try and keep warm,because they could not afford fuel.Wolfgangs wife,Constance,was often ill.They als
24、o had little children to take care of.Everyone agreed that his music was wonderful,but writing,selling,and playing music did not bring in much money.Mozart Level R1718The RequiemOne day when Mozart was thirty-six,a tall stranger dressed in gray pounded on his door.Without saying a word,he handed Moz
25、art an envelope.Inside was some money and an order for Mozart to write a requiem.Nothing in the envelope said whom it was for.“It is for myself,”Mozart said to Constance.“I feel it in my heart.”She laughed.He was only thirty-six,and it was silly for him to talk of dying!The truth was that the requie
26、m had been ordered by a count.He wanted to play the music at his wifes funeral,but he wanted to say that he had written it himself.But Mozart didnt know this.Mozart Level R1920Wolfgang began writing.He wrote feverishly,staying up all night,sometimes even forgetting to eat.The work exhausted him,and
27、he began to grow weak.Mozart had been making a little money by teaching music students.But now he was so wrapped up in the requiem that he cancelled all of his classes.Without money,the family couldnt afford much food.They couldnt afford candles to light their cold house at night.But still Mozart wr
28、ote,growing weaker and weaker.Finally,just before finishing the requiem,Mozart died.It truly had been his own requiem.The Greatest Musician Who Ever LivedMozart is still considered the greatest musician who ever lived.But when he died,his family was so poor they could not purchase a gravestone.Event
29、ually,no one could remember where he had been buried.Today there is a great monument to Mozart in Vienna,and on it is an inscription reading,“The probable site of his grave.”The monument to Mozart in Vienna where he probably is buriedMozart Level R2122Mozarts music is still played today.He wrote suc
30、h famous operas as The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute,and the piano piece,“Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”(which means“a little night music”in German).You may not have heard of these pieces of music,but if you heard them being played,you might recognize them.Mozarts music is used everywhere.You can
31、hear it in a concert hall,or you can hear it in cartoons.He wrote many of his most famous pieces when he was only a little older than you are.And he died while he was still young.Imagine the wealth of music we might have if he had only lived.Glossaryconcerto a piece of classical music written for an
32、 orchestra,with solos by one or more instruments(p.9)dreadful terrible;awful(p.14)monastery a group of buildings where monks live and worship(p.11)organ a musical instrument with keys like a piano and large foot pedals(p.11)organist a musician who plays the organ(p.4)probable likely but not sure;possible(p.20)prodigy a child who is very skilled at something,often more skilled than most adults(p.7)requiem a piece of classical music written specifically for a funeral or death(p.17)scales a series of notes covering every note in one key(p.6)smitten in love with;adoring(p.13)Mozart Level R