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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?
(a) Ignaz Moscheles.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(d) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

2. What term refers to a group of eight interrelated notes?
(a) Scale.
(b) Octave.
(c) Chord.
(d) Sonata.

3. Thalberg fully retired from playing with not even a piano at home in what year?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1863.
(d) 1919.

4. What German pianist and composer was a pupil of Hummel and Sechter and became court pianist in St Petersburg?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Friedrich Chopin.

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

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

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

8. 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) Bravura.
(b)
(c)
(d)

9. What is an English piano manufacturer founded in 1728 by Burkat Shudi and continued after his death in 1773?
(a) Henselt and Sons.
(b) Steinway.
(c) Broadwood and Sons.
(d) Hammel and Sons.

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

11. Where was Johann Hummel from?
(a) Scotland.
(b) Russia.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Austria.

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

13. Where was Chopin born?
(a) Vienna, Austria.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) Krakaw, Poland.
(d) Warsaw, Poland.

14. What Polish student of Franz Liszt amazed fellow pianists with his speed, power and endurance?
(a) Moriz Rosenthal.
(b) Emil von Sauer.
(c) Alfred Grunfeld.
(d) Saint-Saens.

15. When was Ignacy Jan Paderewski born?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1872.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did Eugene d'Albert consider to be his spiritual home?

2. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk return to the United States to give a New York concert?

3. 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?

4. In what year did the romantic upheaval take place in music?

5. In what year was the piano invented?

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