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

2. What term is used to identify a type of music that is a singing, nuanced, fluffy, polite, and melodic approach developed after Bach's death when the heavy contrapuntal style used in the tempestuous fugue fell into disfavor?
(a) Sonata.
(b) Legato.
(c) Fugue.
(d) Etude.

3. What German pianist, conductor, and composer of Czech birth was a pupil of B. D. Weber in Prague and of Albrechtsberger and Salieri in Vienna?
(a) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

4. What romantic Polish pianist born in 1830 spent most of his life after 1878 in Vienna?
(a) Eugene d'Albert.
(b) Ludwig van Beethoven.
(c) Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
(d) Theodor Leschetizky.

5. What nickname referred to Eugene d'Albert?
(a) "The Little Giant."
(b) "The Maestro."
(c) "Brahma of the Keyboard."
(d) "Chopinzee."

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is used to describe a form of playing that means connected consecutive notes without audible separation compared to staccato playing with distinct breaks between consecutive notes?

2. The "Leschetizky system" assigned pupils who needed more training to an assistant for how long or until they met Leschetizky's standards?

3. Who played melody with his thumbs in the middle of the keyboard while his fingers played arpeggios up and down the keyboard?

4. Where was Annette Essipoff from?

5. From 1750 to 1824, London music shops grew from 12 to how many?

(see the answer key)

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