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Judath Ash is a fonner lecturer in academic and medical English at Southwark College. She now writes freelance and is working on distance learning programmes for IELTS and a series of IELTS books. Judith Ash is co-author of A book for IELTS. | IELTS Reading Tests Questions 19-29 Complete the text below which is a summary of paragraphs 3 - 6 in Reading Passage 2. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage to fill each blank space. Write your answers in Boxes 19 29 on your answer sheet. John Hay le who is 19. 1500 die hamé pUHâÿfe y w süli3g Haÿlè Tÿe . asTehâmëd . havedisappeared ofwere Î22É the original dwellings may eiihbr 1O i th lWd-Was .24 1W iltiarlesffi sehd lfai c itù hhiÿfpnç tpttâge manager who converted thexbttaifee j- .28. Sam McCarter Judith Ash 29 IELTS Reading Tests Reading Passage 3 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 30-40 which are based on Reading Passage 3 below. Haydn s late quartets By the time he came to write the String Quartets published as Opus 76 and Opus 77 Haydn was undoubtedly the most famous living composer in the whole of Europe. He had recently returned from the highly successful second visit to England for which he had composed his last six symphonies culminating in the brilliant and festive Drum Roll Symphony No. 103 and London Symphony No. 104 . This is public music full of high spirits expansive gestures and orchestral surprises. Haydn knew how to please his audience. And in 1796 following his return to Vienna he began work on his largest and most famous choral work the oratorio The Creation . In the succeeding years till 1802 he was to write a series of other large scale religious choral works including several masses. The oratorios and masses were also public works employing large forces for dramatic effect but warm and full of apparently spontaneous religious feeling. Yet at the same time he composed these 8 quartets in terms of technical mastery and sheer musical invention the equal of the symphonies and choral works but in their mood and emotional impact far removed by turns introspective and detached or full of passionate intensity. Once again as in the early 1770s when he appears to have been going through some kind of spiritual crisis Haydn .