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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Johannes Sebastian Bach die?
(a) 1740.
(b) 1750.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1802.

2. What public university was founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music?
(a) Vienna Conservatory.
(b) Mendelssohn Conservatory.
(c) Leipzig Conservatory.
(d) Hamberg Conservatory.

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

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

5. Two Hungarian countesses wrestled to the ground over what object belonging to Franz Liszt?
(a) An autograph.
(b) A snuffbox.
(c) A piano tuner.
(d) A ring.

6. What is the term used to describe an elegant drawing room used in formal receptions that is different in layout and size than a public hall or auditorium used for concerts?
(a) Concerto.
(b) Salon.
(c) Stage.
(d) Studio.

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

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

9. Who was the first great pianist who made a clear break with classicism to set romantic pianism on its course?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Friedrich Chopin.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Carl Czerny.

10. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk die?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1869.

11. Leschetizky identified three elements of being a great pianist that included being a what?
(a) American.
(b) Child prodigy.
(c) Mathematician.
(d) German.

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

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

14. In what decade did America discourage pupils away from European schools like Paris Conservatoire?
(a) 1860s.
(b) 1840s.
(c) 1850s.
(d) 1920s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From 1750 to 1824, London music shops grew from 12 to how many?

2. What Polish student of Franz Liszt amazed fellow pianists with his speed, power and endurance?

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

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. Where was Ignacy Jan Paderewski from?

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