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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?
(a) Bertold Hummel.
(b) Franz Liszt.
(c) Friedrich Chopin.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

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

3. In what year did Louis Moreau Gottschalk die?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1869.

4. Who was the earliest-born pianist to be recorded?
(a) Saint-Saens.
(b) Sophie Mentor.
(c) Chopin.
(d) Franz Liszt.

5. What Polish piano-player could not play two correct notes in a row and always played fortissimo?
(a) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(b) William Sterndale Bennett.
(c) Theodor Döhler.
(d) Antoine de Kontski.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?

2. Who credited Nicholas Rubinstein as his chief teacher and said Liszt was too old to teach him?

3. Who held solo concerts in 1839 Rome?

4. What student of Franz Liszt was described as having touch that was "soft as velvet and as strong as a man's"?

5. In what year did the romantic upheaval take place in music?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which of Liszt's students was considered his equal? How did students seek Liszt to teach them?

2. How did musical styles evolve after the death of Bach? What is the definition of "contrapuntal style"?

3. How does the author describe Mozart's playing style in Chapter II, It Should Flow Like Oil?

4. Who are the musicians described in Chapter XIII, Two Sensitive Ones? When did they live?

5. What eccentricities does the author describe of the salonists in Chapter XII, More Salonists, and the Revolutionary in Octaves?

6. How are Franz Liszt's fans described in Chapter X, Thunder, Lightning, Mesmerism, Sex? How did Liszt react to the public?

7. When and where did piano playing arise in history? What instruments led up to the development of the piano?

8. How does the author describe the transition to concert hall? Who was among the first concert hall pianists?

9. What female students of Franz Liszt are described in Chapter XVII, The Children of the Abbe? What were their attributes?

10. What formal training did Ignacy Jan Paderewski receive and where?

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