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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(d) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

2. How much money did Ignacy Jan Paderewski earn for three months playing in the United States?
(a) $200,000.
(b) $300,000.
(c) $150,000.
(d) $500,000.

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

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

5. Where was Chopin born?
(a) Vienna, Austria.
(b) Warsaw, Poland.
(c) Krakaw, Poland.
(d) Paris, France.

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

7. Which student of Franz Liszt is described as having musical skill that was mostly telling tales published in "Music Study in Germany"?
(a) Sophie Mentor.
(b) Adele aus der Ohe.
(c) Amy Fay.
(d) Clara Schumann.

8. When did Chopin arrive in Paris as a fully-developed composer and pianist?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1845.

9. What student of Franz Liszt was described as having touch that was "soft as velvet and as strong as a man's"?
(a) Adele aus der Ohe.
(b) Clara Schumann.
(c) Sophie Mentor.
(d) Amy Fay.

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

11. Who married composer Robert Schumann, wore black in his memory, and was the authority on his music?
(a) Mary Schumann.
(b) Louise Schumann.
(c) Clara Schumann.
(d) Andrea Schumann.

12. Where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born?
(a) London.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Paris.
(d) Vienna.

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

14. 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) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

15. 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) Organ.
(b) Clavichord.
(c) Harpsichord.
(d) Lute.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Ignacy Jan Paderewski born?

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

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

4. What Austrian child prodigy made his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a Mozart piano concerto?

5. In what year was Henri Herz born?

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