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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 refers to a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century?
(a) Lute.
(b) Organ.
(c) Clavichord.
(d) Harpsichord.

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

3. How old was Anton Rubinstein when he debuted?
(a) 11.
(b) 9.
(c) 13.
(d) 15.

4. In what decade did America discourage pupils away from European schools like Paris Conservatoire?
(a) 1860s.
(b) 1850s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1840s.

5. In what year was the piano invented?
(a) 1654.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1709.
(d) 1523.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born?

2. What is the name of a term used to describe a piano playing style that was a brilliant romanticist musical approach that transcended technique and was made famous by Franz Liszt and others?

3. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?

4. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the nickname of Sigismond Thalberg? Why?

2. How was Chopin related to romanticism? How does the author describe Chopin's appearance?

3. What eccentricities does the author describe of the salonists in Chapter XII, More Salonists, and the Revolutionary in Octaves?

4. Where did Hummel's piano training take place? How is he described as a performer?

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

6. What musicians are described in Chapter XVI, Tyrant and Intellectual? Who established the German school?

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

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

9. Which of Liszt's students was considered his equal? How did students seek Liszt to teach them?

10. What students of Leschetizky are described in Chapter XXIII, Some of the Leschetizky Group?

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