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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber born?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1756.
(d) 1786.

2. What was an ill-defined method of balanced playing where stronger emphasized notes were offset by lesser emphasized notes?
(a) Arpeggio.
(b) Fugue.
(c) Legato.
(d) Tempo rubato.

3. Where did Paderewski debut in 1887?
(a) Vienna.
(b) Paris.
(c) New York.
(d) Oslo.

4. Chapter VI, In the Interim describes the last two decades of what century?
(a) 17th.
(b) 16th.
(c) 18th.
(d) 19th.

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

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

7. What student of Franz Liszt was described as having touch that was "soft as velvet and as strong as a man's"?
(a) Adele aus der Ohe.
(b) Amy Fay.
(c) Clara Schumann.
(d) Sophie Mentor.

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

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

10. What musician helped establish the German school and played clearly, analytically, and precisely with authority?
(a) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(b) Hans von Bulow.
(c) Felix Mendelssohn.
(d) Clara Schumann.

11. 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) Fugue.
(b) Sonata.
(c) Etude.
(d) Legato.

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

13. In what year was the piano invented?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1523.
(c) 1654.
(d) 1709.

14. What refers to a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century?
(a) Lute.
(b) Harpsichord.
(c) Organ.
(d) Clavichord.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Sigismond Thalberg die?

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

3. In what decade did America discourage pupils away from European schools like Paris Conservatoire?

4. Chopin introduced changes in fingering and what that remained stylish into the next century?

5. Who married composer Robert Schumann, wore black in his memory, and was the authority on his music?

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