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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What German pianist, conductor, and composer of Czech birth was a pupil of B. D. Weber in Prague and of Albrechtsberger and Salieri in Vienna?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

2. Who freed Hans von Bulow from a lack of spontaneity to become his first great pupil?
(a) Hans von Bulow.
(b) Felix Mendelssohn.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

3. What term refers to a form of music also called counterpoint in which several simultaneous melodies are woven together into a harmonious whole that was fostered by Johann Sebastian Bach?
(a) Fugue.
(b) Contrapuntal style.
(c) Arpeggio.
(d) Legato.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?
(a) Bertold Hummel.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Friedrich Chopin.

10. Who held solo concerts in 1839 Rome?
(a) Franz Liszt.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Mozart.

11. What Austrian child prodigy made his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a Mozart piano concerto?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

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

13. Who is Anton Rubinstein described as looking and playing like?
(a) Beethoven.
(b) Chopin.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Bach.

14. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."
(a) Etudes.
(b) Sonatas.
(c) Scales.
(d) Harmonies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Vladimir von Pachmann born?

2. Paris Conservatoire rejected what thirteen-year old for being "too savage"?

3. Leschetizky identified three elements of being a great pianist that included being a what?

4. A primitive cylinder recording of Brahms was found dated from what year?

5. Chopin introduced changes in fingering and what that remained stylish into the next century?

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