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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the late 18th century, piano-playing techniques changed from Clementi's classic horizontal hand and arm level to outward-turned hands and wrists exemplified by whom?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Carl Czerny.

2. Where was Eugene d'Albert born?
(a) Scotland.
(b) The United States.
(c) Denmark.
(d) France.

3. In what year was Henri Herz born?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1779.

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

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?
(a) Classicism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Romanticism.

6. Who was the rival of Franz Liszt?
(a) Friedrich Chopin.
(b) Bertold Hummel.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Sigismond Thalberg.

7. A primitive cylinder recording of Brahms was found dated from what year?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1889.

8. What style, perfect for piano, was invented in 1709 by Italian harpsichord-maker Bartolommeo Cristofori to play in salons?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Style galant.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Classicism.

9. What pianist wrote music that took "remarkable stretch" and "peculiar hand formation" to reach his left-hand extensions?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Muzio Clementi.
(c) John Field.
(d) Bartolomeo Cristofori.

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

11. Who credited Nicholas Rubinstein as his chief teacher and said Liszt was too old to teach him?
(a) Emil von Sauer.
(b) Saint-Saens.
(c) Moriz Rosenthal.
(d) Alfred Grunfeld.

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

13. Where was Ignacy Jan Paderewski from?
(a) France.
(b) Poland.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Russia.

14. When was Frédéric Chopin born?
(a) 1810.
(b) 1786.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1759.

15. Where was Franz Liszt musical director and the location of the headquarters for "Music of the Future"?
(a) Weimar court.
(b) Liszt court.
(c) Hammel court.
(d) Buckingham court.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?

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

3. Thalberg fully retired from playing with not even a piano at home in what year?

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. When was Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber born?

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