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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Chopin considered Bach and who to be the only two great composers?
(a) Bertold Hummel.
(b) Franz Liszt.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Mozart.

3. Who studied under Carl Czerny and began his public career at the age of 11, appearing at the Teatro San Benedetto, Venice, in 1843?
(a) Theodor Döhler.
(b) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(c) William Sterndale Bennett.
(d) Alfred Jaëll.

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

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

6. What celebrated pianist and composer was born March 10 1832 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England?
(a) John Field.
(b) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(c) Muzio Clementi.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

7. The "Leschetizky system" assigned pupils who needed more training to an assistant for how long or until they met Leschetizky's standards?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three years.
(c) Two years.
(d) One year.

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

9. What Polish piano-player could not play two correct notes in a row and always played fortissimo?
(a) Antoine de Kontski.
(b) William Sterndale Bennett.
(c) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(d) Theodor Döhler.

10. 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) Modernism.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Cubism.

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

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

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

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

15. Under whom did Ignacy Jan Paderewski study piano?
(a) Eugene d'Albert.
(b) Theodor Leschetizky.
(c) Ludwig van Beethoven.
(d) Bartolommeo Cristofori.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Liszt have rooms between Weimar and Budapest?

2. What musical term refers to playing notes of a chord one after another rather than at one time?

3. What nickname referred to Eugene d'Albert?

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?

5. Who married composer Robert Schumann, wore black in his memory, and was the authority on his music?

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