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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nickname referred to Eugene d'Albert?
(a) "Chopinzee."
(b) "The Little Giant."
(c) "The Maestro."
(d) "Brahma of the Keyboard."

2. Who was Liszt's favorite female student?
(a) Sophie Mentor.
(b) Amy Fay.
(c) Adele aus der Ohe.
(d) Clara Schumann.

3. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?
(a) Franz Liszt.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Bertold Hummel.
(d) Friedrich Chopin.

4. In what year was Henri Herz born?
(a) 1803.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1779.
(d) 1845.

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

6. Where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) London.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Paris.

7. How old was Anton Rubinstein when he debuted?
(a) 9.
(b) 15.
(c) 13.
(d) 11.

8. What musician helped establish the German school and played clearly, analytically, and precisely with authority?
(a) Felix Mendelssohn.
(b) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(c) Hans von Bulow.
(d) Clara Schumann.

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

10. Who married composer Robert Schumann, wore black in his memory, and was the authority on his music?
(a) Clara Schumann.
(b) Mary Schumann.
(c) Andrea Schumann.
(d) Louise Schumann.

11. What German composer and a notable piano virtuoso of the Romantic period studied under Julius Benedict, Carl Czerny, and Simon Sechte?
(a) Antoine de Kontski.
(b) Theodor Döhler.
(c) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(d) William Sterndale Bennett.

12. Two Hungarian countesses wrestled to the ground over what object belonging to Franz Liszt?
(a) An autograph.
(b) A snuffbox.
(c) A ring.
(d) A piano tuner.

13. When did Sigismond Thalberg die?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1803.

14. What was an ill-defined method of balanced playing where stronger emphasized notes were offset by lesser emphasized notes?
(a) Legato.
(b) Tempo rubato.
(c) Fugue.
(d) Arpeggio.

15. What pianist was born November 14, 1778, in Bohemia?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Johann Hummel born?

2. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk return to the United States to give a New York concert?

3. What is an English piano manufacturer founded in 1728 by Burkat Shudi and continued after his death in 1773?

4. Paris Conservatoire rejected what thirteen-year old for being "too savage"?

5. Where was Chopin born?

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