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(A)Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. Hiswide ranging output includes symphonies, operas, ballets, instrumental and chamber music andsongs. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical 52 ,including the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture,his First Piano Concerto, his last three numbered symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.Born into a middle-class family, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant,despite his obvious musical 53 . He pursued a musical career against the wishes of hisfamily, entering the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1862 and graduating in 1865. Thisformal, Western-oriented training set him apart from the contemporary nationalistic movementembodied by the influential group of young Russian composers known as The Five, withwhom Tchaikovsky's professional relationship was mixed.Although he enjoyed many popular successes, Tchaikovsky was never emotionally secure,and his life was 54 by personal crises and periods of depression. Contributory factorswere his suppressed homosexuality and fear of exposure, his disastrous marriage, and thesudden collapse of the one enduring relationship of his adult life, his 13-year association withthe wealthy widow Nadezhda von Meck. Amid private turmoil Tchaikovsky's public reputationgrew; he was honored by the Tsar, awarded a lifetime pension and lauded in the concert hallsof the world. His sudden death at the age of 53 is generally 55 cholera, but some attributeit to suicide.Although perennially popular with concert audiences across the world, Tchaikovsky'smusic was often 56 by American critics in the early and mid-20th century as beingvulgar and lacking in elevated thought. By the end of the 20th century, however, Tchaikovsky'sstatus as a significant composer was generally regarded as secure.
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(A) reservoir
(B) repertoire
(C) revenue
(D) inventory

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答案：B
難度：簡單0.704225
統計：A(8),B(50),C(5),D(3),E(0)

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