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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Old Arpeggio recommended pressing the keys with energy and vigor rather than striking them and kneading tender passages with "fingers of" what?
2. In the late 18th century, piano-playing techniques changed from Clementi's classic horizontal hand and arm level to outward-turned hands and wrists exemplified by whom?
3. In what year did Johannes Sebastian Bach die?
4. In what year did Louis Moreau Gottschalk die?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What relationship did Chopin share with Franz Liszt? How did they meet?
2. What students of Leschetizky are described in Chapter XXIII, Some of the Leschetizky Group?
3. What formal training did Ignacy Jan Paderewski receive and where?
4. What was Thalsberg's career like? When did he retire?
5. Who was the rival of Franz Liszt? How did they differ in their performance styles?
6. What historical period is related by the author in Chapter VI, In the Interim? Who instigated this transition?
7. How did Chopin feel about his contemporaries? Who did he consider the only two great composers?
8. Which of Liszt's students was considered his equal? How did students seek Liszt to teach them?
9. Who was Louis Moreau Gottschalk and how did he represent American ideals in musical composition?
10. What four pianists are described in Chapter VII, From Ireland to Bohemia? Who is noted as the best of the group?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare the pianists John Field and Friedrich Kalkbrenner. When and where was each born? What advancements did the pianist or composer make in music?
Essay Topic 2
Compare the styles, philosophies, and techniques of Anton Rubinstein and his student Josef Hofmann. What style was Hofmann a forerunner of?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the two pianists presented in Chapter XIII, Two Sensitive Ones, Charles Henri Valentin Morhange and Adolf Henselt. Why did the author choose this title for the chapter?
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