View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XIV through XIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did Johannes Sebastian Bach die?
(a) 1740.
(b) 1750.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1798.

3. What is an English piano manufacturer founded in 1728 by Burkat Shudi and continued after his death in 1773?
(a) Broadwood and Sons.
(b) Hammel and Sons.
(c) Henselt and Sons.
(d) Steinway.

4. What Hungarian composer wildly gesticulated back and forth all over the keyboard when he played?
(a) Franz Liszt.
(b) Friedrich Chopin.
(c) Sigismond Thalberg.
(d) Bertold Hummel.

5. What pianist performed at four and memorized and played all the Beethoven symphonies at eight on piano?
(a) William Sterndale Bennett.
(b) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(c) Felix Mendelssohn.
(d) Clara Schumann.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Liszt have rooms between Weimar and Budapest?

2. Who held solo concerts in 1839 Rome?

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

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

5. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 227 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample