1. What musician played like a skilled de Pachmann, according to the author?
(a) Moriz Rosenthal.
(b) Vassily Sapellnikoff.
(c) Percy Grainger.
(d) Alfred Grunfeld.

2. What musician debuted in 1906 America and amazed other pianists with his "quasi-glissando" that seemed impossible?
(a) Mischa Levitzski.
(b) Josef Lhevinne.
(c) Simon Barrere.
(d) Claude Debussy.

3. What German composer and pianist is considered to have been the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music?
(a) Eugene d'Albert.
(b) Ludwig van Beethoven.
(c) Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
(d) Theodor Leschetizky.

4. What German Romantic composer of orchestral and choral works was born in 1809 in Hamburg?
(a) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Felix Mendelssohn.
(d) Carl Czerny.

5. What is the name of a performance hall in New York City where Paderewski made a debut in 1891 on his tour for the Steinway piano company?
(a) New York Philharmonic.
(b) Metropolitan Opera.
(c) Carnegie Hall.
(d) Vienna Philharmonic.

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. In what year was Harold Bauer born?

3. What pianist performed at four and memorized and played all the Beethoven symphonies at eight on piano?

4. Where was Ignacy Jan Paderewski from?

5. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk die?

(see the answer key)

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