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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 did Frédéric Chopin die?
(a) Paris.
(b) Vienna.
(c) London.
(d) Oslo.

2. Where was Anton Rubinstein born?
(a) Russia.
(b) Czechoslavakia.
(c) Poland.
(d) Austria.

3. In what year did Sigismond Thalberg debut in New York and play fifty-six concerts?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1919.

4. When did Leopold de Meyer debut in America?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1803.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What student of Franz Liszt was described as having touch that was "soft as velvet and as strong as a man's"?

2. 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?

3. When was Frédéric Chopin born?

4. 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?

5. When was Ignacy Jan Paderewski born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What relationship did Chopin share with Franz Liszt? How did they meet?

7. Who was Louis Moreau Gottschalk and how did he represent American ideals in musical composition?

8. What musical figure is described in Chapter XXI, An Archangel Come Down to Earth? Whose student was he?

9. Who was Saint-Saens? What were his musical contributions?

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

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