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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. In what year did Louis Moreau Gottschalk die?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1899.
2. In what year did Sigismond Thalberg debut in New York and play fifty-six concerts?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1803.
3. Who was considered Liszt's equal and a "living impersonation of Chopin"?
(a) Franz Liszt.
(b) Carl Tausig.
(c) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(d) Hans von Bulow.
4. How old was Paderewski when he debuted in 1887?
(a) 30.
(b) 19.
(c) 16.
(d) 24.
5. When was Vladimir von Pachmann born?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1865.
Short Answer Questions
1. What musician helped establish the German school and played clearly, analytically, and precisely with authority?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. What Hungarian composer wildly gesticulated back and forth all over the keyboard when he played?
5. Under whom did Ignacy Jan Paderewski study piano?
Short Essay Questions
1. How was Chopin related to romanticism? How does the author describe Chopin's appearance?
2. What was the nickname of Sigismond Thalberg? Why?
3. Who were the salonists described in Chapter XII, More Salonists, and the Revolutionary in Octaves?
4. When did the romantic upheaval take place in music? Who were its forerunners?
5. What was Thalsberg's career like? When did he retire?
6. How did Chopin feel about his contemporaries? Who did he consider the only two great composers?
7. How does the author describe Mozart's playing style in Chapter II, It Should Flow Like Oil?
8. How does the author describe changes in playing techniques in Chapter VI, In the Interim? Who initiated these adaptations?
9. What students of Leschetizky are described in Chapter XXIII, Some of the Leschetizky Group?
10. When and where did piano playing arise in history? What instruments led up to the development of the piano?
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