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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 wrote music that took "remarkable stretch" and "peculiar hand formation" to reach his left-hand extensions?
(a) John Field.
(b) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Muzio Clementi.

2. From 1750 to 1824, London music shops grew from 12 to how many?
(a) 100.
(b) 150.
(c) 50.
(d) 200.

3. Who is Anton Rubinstein described as looking and playing like?
(a) Bach.
(b) Chopin.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Beethoven.

4. A primitive cylinder recording of Brahms was found dated from what year?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1889.

5. 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?
(a)
(b) Bravura.
(c)
(d)

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Johann Hummel from?

2. Leschetizky identified three elements of being a great pianist that included being a what?

3. Old Arpeggio recommended pressing the keys with energy and vigor rather than striking them and kneading tender passages with "fingers of" what?

4. What Polish piano-player could not play two correct notes in a row and always played fortissimo?

5. Chopin introduced changes in fingering and what that remained stylish into the next century?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who are the musicians described in Chapter XIII, Two Sensitive Ones? When did they live?

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

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

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

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