The Great Pianists Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Harold C. Schonberg
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 123 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Great Pianists Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Harold C. Schonberg
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 123 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XX through XXIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of a term used to describe a piano playing style that was a brilliant romanticist musical approach that transcended technique and was made famous by Franz Liszt and others?
(a) Bravura.
(b)
(c)
(d)

2. Who invented the piano?
(a) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Muzio Clementi.
(d) John Field.

3. What celebrated pianist and composer was born March 10 1832 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England?
(a) Muzio Clementi.
(b) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(c) John Field.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

4. What musical term refers to playing notes of a chord one after another rather than at one time?
(a) Legato.
(b) Fugue.
(c) Stacatto.
(d) Arpeggio.

5. Two Hungarian countesses wrestled to the ground over what object belonging to Franz Liszt?
(a) A piano tuner.
(b) An autograph.
(c) A snuffbox.
(d) A ring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?

2. What term is used to describe the mid-eighteenth century disciplined style of piano playing in which the pianist plays notes written by a composer with some flexibility for tasteful improvisation and embellishment?

3. What German pianist, composer, piano teacher, and piano manufacturer was born in 1785?

4. What pianist wrote music that took "remarkable stretch" and "peculiar hand formation" to reach his left-hand extensions?

5. How old was Paderewski when he debuted in 1887?

(see the answer key)

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