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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. In what year was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?

2. What German pianist, composer, piano teacher, and piano manufacturer was born in 1785?

3. Under whom did Ignacy Jan Paderewski study piano?

4. Where was Anton Rubinstein born?

5. What musician helped establish the German school and played clearly, analytically, and precisely with authority?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did Chopin feel about his contemporaries? Who did he consider the only two great composers?

7. When did the romantic upheaval take place in music? Who were its forerunners?

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

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

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

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

Describe the works and impact of William Sterndale Bennett, Theodore Dohler, and Stephen Heller. When did these pianists rise to prominence? What were they known for stylistically?

Essay Topic 3

How did the processes of piano manufacturing change in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? What impact did this have on the piano's popularity?

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