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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Paderewski when he debuted in 1887?
(a) 16.
(b) 19.
(c) 24.
(d) 30.

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

3. In what year was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?
(a) 1780.
(b) 1714.
(c) 1756.
(d) 1749.

4. What celebrated pianist and composer was born March 10 1832 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England?
(a) John Field.
(b) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(c) Muzio Clementi.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

5. What country did Eugene d'Albert consider to be his spiritual home?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Vienna.

6. Who played melody with his thumbs in the middle of the keyboard while his fingers played arpeggios up and down the keyboard?
(a) Bertold Hummel.
(b) Friedrich Chopin.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Sigismond Thalberg.

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

8. What Austrian child prodigy made his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a Mozart piano concerto?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

9. Where did Liszt have rooms between Weimar and Budapest?
(a) Buckingham Palace.
(b) Dublin, Ireland.
(c) The Lourvre.
(d) The Vatican.

10. When did Leopold de Meyer debut in America?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1798.

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

12. When did Chopin arrive in Paris as a fully-developed composer and pianist?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1905.

13. What son of a Hungarian official was born in 1811 became a priest in 1865 but had no authority to celebrate mass or hear confession?
(a) Franz Liszt.
(b) Sigismond Thalberg.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Friedrich Chopin.

14. Under whom did Ignacy Jan Paderewski study piano?
(a) Eugene d'Albert.
(b) Bartolommeo Cristofori.
(c) Ludwig van Beethoven.
(d) Theodor Leschetizky.

15. When was Johann Hummel born?
(a) 1778.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1745.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Vladimir von Pachmann born?

2. Who invented the piano?

3. When did Sigismond Thalberg die?

4. 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?

5. What term is used to describe the mid-eighteenth century disciplined style of piano playing in which the pianist plays notes written by a composer with some flexibility for tasteful improvisation and embellishment?

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