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

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

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) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Ignaz Moscheles.

4. What term refers to a form of music also called counterpoint in which several simultaneous melodies are woven together into a harmonious whole that was fostered by Johann Sebastian Bach?
(a) Legato.
(b) Arpeggio.
(c) Contrapuntal style.
(d) Fugue.

5. Who studied under Carl Czerny and began his public career at the age of 11, appearing at the Teatro San Benedetto, Venice, in 1843?
(a) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(b) Theodor Döhler.
(c) William Sterndale Bennett.
(d) Alfred Jaëll.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When did Leopold de Meyer debut in America?

3. In what year did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart die?

4. Where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born?

5. What German composer and a notable piano virtuoso of the Romantic period studied under Julius Benedict, Carl Czerny, and Simon Sechte?

(see the answer key)

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