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I. Read this passage about the great Hungarian composer, Bela Bartok. (15 x 2p = 30p )
Bela Bartok was born in Hungary in 1881, the son of a director of an agricultural school.
He studied at the Conservatory in Budapest and wrote Concerto, The Miraculous Mandarin and
the Kossuth Overture which was performed in 1904 in England. He also wrote the Concerto for
Violin for Sir Yehudi Menuhin..
In 1905 he started to travel through Hungary, Slovakia and Romania to study folk music.
He made 16,000 recordings of people playing and singing and became very interested in
traditional Hungarian instruments and melodies. He was very interested in all kinds of folk
music. He returned to Budapest in 1908 and worked as a piano teacher at the Hungarian Academy
of Music until 1934.
In 1940 he went to live in the United States because he did not agree with Nazism. He
worked in the US as a pianist. He died in 1945, a poor man, but he was a great composer and
invented a new musical language. Among his greatest works are the six great street quartets, the
opera Bluebeard’s Castle (1911) as well as several ballets like The Wooden Prince (1914-1916).
His music is still performed and greatly appreciated today.
1. Here are eight statements about Bartok. Put a "T" if the answer is true, a "F" if the
answer is false and a" ? " if the passage does not say.
PARTEA A-II-A
Write an informal letter to a friend to invite him/her to pay a visit to your town.Present
some places you can visit together. ( 100-120 words) (30 p)
KEY
I. 1. a T, b ? , c F, d T, e T, f T, g F, h ?, i F, j T., k F, l T.
2. a. DIRECTOR
b. RECORDING
c. QUARTET
IIA 1-c
2-c
3-a
4-c
5-b
6-a 7-c 8-a 9-c 10-b
B 1-nurse
2-actor
3-teacher
4-police officer
5-pianist