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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. Where was Ignacy Jan Paderewski from?
(a) France.
(b) Russia.
(c) Poland.
(d) Denmark.

2. Who was the first great pianist who made a clear break with classicism to set romantic pianism on its course?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Friedrich Chopin.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Carl Czerny.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the piano become the most popular instrument to be played publicly?

2. When did Leopold de Meyer debut in America?

3. What German Romantic composer of orchestral and choral works was born in 1809 in Hamburg?

4. What was an ill-defined method of balanced playing where stronger emphasized notes were offset by lesser emphasized notes?

5. In what year did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Thalsberg's career like? When did he retire?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does the author describe Mozart's playing style in Chapter II, It Should Flow Like Oil?

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