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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In what year did the romantic upheaval take place in music?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1754.
(d) 1830.

7. In what year did Sigismond Thalberg debut in New York and play fifty-six concerts?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1803.

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. When did Sigismond Thalberg die?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1845.

10. Where was Anton Rubinstein born?
(a) Austria.
(b) Czechoslavakia.
(c) Russia.
(d) Poland.

11. What pianist was born November 14, 1778, in Bohemia?
(a) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Carl Czerny.

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

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

14. Paderewski did not receive systematic instruction until what age?
(a) 9.
(b) 13.
(c) 12.
(d) 16.

15. 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) Romanticism.
(b) Classicism.
(c) Realism.
(d) Modernism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Franz Liszt musical director and the location of the headquarters for "Music of the Future"?

2. What German Romantic composer of orchestral and choral works was born in 1809 in Hamburg?

3. Which student of Franz Liszt is described as having musical skill that was mostly telling tales published in "Music Study in Germany"?

4. Who was considered Liszt's equal and a "living impersonation of Chopin"?

5. What Polish piano-player could not play two correct notes in a row and always played fortissimo?

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