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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) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Johannes Sebastian Bach.

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

3. In the late 18th century, piano-playing techniques changed from Clementi's classic horizontal hand and arm level to outward-turned hands and wrists exemplified by whom?
(a) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

4. Old Arpeggio recommended pressing the keys with energy and vigor rather than striking them and kneading tender passages with "fingers of" what?
(a) Silk.
(b) Velvet.
(c) Glass.
(d) Cotton.

5. Where was Franz Liszt musical director and the location of the headquarters for "Music of the Future"?
(a) Hammel court.
(b) Weimar court.
(c) Buckingham court.
(d) Liszt court.

Short Answer 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?

2. What pianist performed at four and memorized and played all the Beethoven symphonies at eight on piano?

3. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."

4. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk die?

5. What son of a Hungarian official was born in 1811 became a priest in 1865 but had no authority to celebrate mass or hear confession?

Short Essay Questions

1. What four pianists are described in Chapter VII, From Ireland to Bohemia? Who is noted as the best of the group?

2. How does the author describe changes in playing techniques in Chapter VI, In the Interim? Who initiated these adaptations?

3. Who were the salonists described in Chapter XII, More Salonists, and the Revolutionary in Octaves?

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

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

6. Who held the first solo concerts of the romantic period? What were they like?

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

8. Describe the differences in piano manufacturing and their impact on piano music in Chapter VI, In the Interim. Where were pianos made?

9. When did John Field begin training on the piano? With whom?

10. Describe the early life and career of Mozart. How old was he when he first performed musically?

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