The Great Pianists Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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 E

Harold C. Schonberg
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXVI and XXVII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which student of Franz Liszt is described as having musical skill that was mostly telling tales published in "Music Study in Germany"?
(a) Sophie Mentor.
(b) Adele aus der Ohe.
(c) Amy Fay.
(d) Clara Schumann.

2. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?
(a) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Johannes Sebastian Bach.
(d) Ignaz Moscheles.

3. Who sought ideal music he could play and compose and eventually settled on Mozart's twelve piano concertos at farewell concerts in 1922?
(a) Ferruccio Busoni.
(b) Franz Liszt.
(c) Claude Debussy.
(d) Claudio Arrau.

4. Paris Conservatoire rejected what thirteen-year old for being "too savage"?
(a) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(b) William Sterndale Bennett.
(c) Antoine de Kontski.
(d) Theodor Döhler.

5. Thalberg fully retired from playing with not even a piano at home in what year?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1863.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Liszt's favorite female student?

2. What Austrian child prodigy made his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a Mozart piano concerto?

3. What German pianist and composer was a pupil of Hummel and Sechter and became court pianist in St Petersburg?

4. What is an English piano manufacturer founded in 1728 by Burkat Shudi and continued after his death in 1773?

5. What pianist was born November 14, 1778, in Bohemia?

(see the answer key)

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