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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who invented the piano?
(a) John Field.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(d) Muzio Clementi.

2. 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) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

3. What is the name of a term used to describe a piano playing style that was a brilliant romanticist musical approach that transcended technique and was made famous by Franz Liszt and others?
(a)
(b)
(c) Bravura.
(d)

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

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

6. In what year did Louis Moreau Gottschalk die?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1798.

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

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

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

10. What is the name of a term used to describe a form of music in which themes successively repeat?
(a) Style galant.
(b) Arpeggio.
(c) Legato.
(d) Fugue.

11. Which student of Franz Liszt is described as having musical skill that was mostly telling tales published in "Music Study in Germany"?
(a) Amy Fay.
(b) Clara Schumann.
(c) Sophie Mentor.
(d) Adele aus der Ohe.

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

13. What term is used to describe the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century virtuoso style of piano playing in which a pianist plays with expanded flexibility?
(a) Classicism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Cubism.
(d) Modernism.

14. Who was considered Liszt's equal and a "living impersonation of Chopin"?
(a) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(b) Franz Liszt.
(c) Carl Tausig.
(d) Hans von Bulow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Under whom did Ignacy Jan Paderewski study piano?

2. How old was Anton Rubinstein when he debuted?

3. When did Chopin arrive in Paris as a fully-developed composer and pianist?

4. Who studied under Carl Czerny and began his public career at the age of 11, appearing at the Teatro San Benedetto, Venice, in 1843?

5. In what year was Henri Herz born?

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