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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pianist performed at four and memorized and played all the Beethoven symphonies at eight on piano?
(a) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(b) Felix Mendelssohn.
(c) Clara Schumann.
(d) William Sterndale Bennett.

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

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

4. When did Leopold de Meyer debut in America?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1798.

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

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

7. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk return to the United States to give a New York concert?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1853.

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

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

10. What German composer and a notable piano virtuoso of the Romantic period studied under Julius Benedict, Carl Czerny, and Simon Sechte?
(a) Theodor Döhler.
(b) William Sterndale Bennett.
(c) Antoine de Kontski.
(d) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

11. 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.

12. What musical instrument consists of one or more sets of pipes sounded by means of compressed air, played by means of one or more keyboards, and capable of producing a wide range of musical effects?
(a) Clavichord.
(b) Lute.
(c) Harpsichord.
(d) Organ.

13. Where did Liszt have rooms between Weimar and Budapest?
(a) Dublin, Ireland.
(b) Buckingham Palace.
(c) The Lourvre.
(d) The Vatican.

14. From 1750 to 1824, London music shops grew from 12 to how many?
(a) 50.
(b) 200.
(c) 150.
(d) 100.

15. How old was Paderewski when he debuted in 1887?
(a) 30.
(b) 16.
(c) 24.
(d) 19.

Short Answer Questions

1. What great pianist played piano as he sat erect and formal with minimal movement and earned the nickname Old Arpeggio?

2. What pianist wrote music that took "remarkable stretch" and "peculiar hand formation" to reach his left-hand extensions?

3. Where was Ignacy Jan Paderewski from?

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

5. Chopin considered Bach and who to be the only two great composers?

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