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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What musical term refers to playing notes of a chord one after another rather than at one time?
(a) Arpeggio.
(b) Fugue.
(c) Legato.
(d) Stacatto.

3. Who was Liszt's favorite female student?
(a) Sophie Mentor.
(b) Adele aus der Ohe.
(c) Clara Schumann.
(d) Amy Fay.

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

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

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

7. What is the name of a term used to describe a form of music in which themes successively repeat?
(a) Arpeggio.
(b) Fugue.
(c) Legato.
(d) Style galant.

8. What nickname referred to Eugene d'Albert?
(a) "Brahma of the Keyboard."
(b) "Chopinzee."
(c) "The Maestro."
(d) "The Little Giant."

9. What is a term used to describe various tools invented to help young piano students learn and practice that included a chiroplast, guide-mains, dactylion to suspend fingers on springs, pocket hand exerciser, and technicon among others that promised perfection with less work?
(a) Etude and arpeggio.
(b) Devices and mechanisms.
(c) Etudes and scales.
(d) Legato and stacatto.

10. What German composer and pianist is considered to have been the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music?
(a) Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
(b) Ludwig van Beethoven.
(c) Eugene d'Albert.
(d) Theodor Leschetizky.

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

12. 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)
(b)
(c) Bravura.
(d)

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What public university was founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music?

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

4. Who was the rival of Franz Liszt?

5. Who credited Nicholas Rubinstein as his chief teacher and said Liszt was too old to teach him?

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