The Other Mozart - Unit 6

C2 Proficiency · Word Formation · Objective Proficiency 2nd Edition Workbook, Cambridge University Press

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.

MELANCHOLY

FULFIL

HIGH

MATURE

AUTOMATIC

ATTAIN

LONG

REALIST

Everyone has heard of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; few of his musical son Franz Xaver. A new CD collection (0) ___ The Other Mozart celebrates Franz's music – in all its haunting, (1) ___ innocence. The 27 songs are brief slivers of ideas, underdeveloped shadows of what might have been, reaching a beautiful (2) ___ in the later works. But it is clear that the music never reaches the (3) ___ of his genius father. Franz was the youngest of Mozart's children, and his mother's hopes and ambitions focused on him following the (4) ___ death of his father. The very best teachers were (5) ___ available to Franz, who made his public debut as a singer, aged five. The songs bring to light Franz's pianistic accomplishment; the piano parts are extremely demanding. The songs hint at Franz's love for a woman; they speak time and again of (6) ___ love and unfulfilled (7) ___ . (8) ___ , however, the fact remains that this music, had it been written by a composer of any other name, would probably have remained buried in the archives.

The Other Mozart

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