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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?
(a) Ignaz Moscheles.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Johannes Sebastian Bach.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Frédéric Chopin die?

2. Where was Eugene d'Albert born?

3. When was Johann Hummel born?

4. What Hungarian composer wildly gesticulated back and forth all over the keyboard when he played?

5. When did Leopold de Meyer debut in America?

Short Essay Questions

1. What female students of Franz Liszt are described in Chapter XVII, The Children of the Abbe? What were their attributes?

2. How did musical styles evolve after the death of Bach? What is the definition of "contrapuntal style"?

3. Who was Eugene d'Albert? What does the author write of his musical contributions?

4. When and where did piano playing arise in history? What instruments led up to the development of the piano?

5. What musical figure is described in Chapter XXI, An Archangel Come Down to Earth? Whose student was he?

6. How does the author describe the transition to concert hall? Who was among the first concert hall pianists?

7. Who were the great models of piano and composition teaching in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How was their style defined?

8. What historical period is related by the author in Chapter VI, In the Interim? Who instigated this transition?

9. Who was Clara Schumann? What was her musical contribution?

10. What formal training did Ignacy Jan Paderewski receive and where?

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