题目内容：

在未给提示词的空白处仅填写 1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Johann Strauss was 1. Austrian composer of light  music，particularly dance  music and operettas (轻歌剧). He was born  in Vienna in 1825. Although his father didn't  want him 2. (become) a musician, Strauss studied the violin 3. (secret) when he was a child. When his father discovered his son was practicing on a violin one day, he gave him a beating, 4. (say) that he was going to beat the music out of  the boy. But that didn't prevent the boy from becoming one of the greatest 5. (composer) of all time. He wrote his first waltz at six. At the age of 19, he decided to devote himself to 6. (write) music. He formed his own orchestra and made a  successful tour to Europe and soon became  famous. The emperor of Austria was so 7. (please) with his music that he  appointed him the conductor at the court balls  of Vienna. It was for these occasions that he  wrote some of his most popular waltzes, among 8. was the well­known favorite TheBlueDanube. In all，the talented Johann Strauss  wrote more than 500 masterpieces. In his  lifetime, he was known 9. the Waltz  King, and was largely responsible for the10. (popular) of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century.