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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the piano invented?
(a) 1654.
(b) 1523.
(c) 1709.
(d) 1790.

2. What pianist performed at four and memorized and played all the Beethoven symphonies at eight on piano?
(a) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(b) Clara Schumann.
(c) Felix Mendelssohn.
(d) William Sterndale Bennett.

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

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

5. What Polish piano-player could not play two correct notes in a row and always played fortissimo?
(a) Theodor Döhler.
(b) William Sterndale Bennett.
(c) Antoine de Kontski.
(d) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

6. 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?
(a) Organ.
(b) Harpsichord.
(c) Clavichord.
(d) Lute.

7. When was Vladimir von Pachmann born?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1902.

8. When was Johann Hummel born?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1778.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1745.

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

10. Thalberg fully retired from playing with not even a piano at home in what year?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1919.

11. The "Leschetizky system" assigned pupils who needed more training to an assistant for how long or until they met Leschetizky's standards?
(a) Two years.
(b) One year.
(c) Three years.
(d) Six months.

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

13. In what year did Johannes Sebastian Bach die?
(a) 1740.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1750.

14. What German Romantic composer of orchestral and choral works was born in 1809 in Hamburg?
(a) Felix Mendelssohn.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Franz Liszt musical director and the location of the headquarters for "Music of the Future"?

2. Where was Ignacy Jan Paderewski from?

3. What public university was founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music?

4. What is a term used to describe various tools invented to help young piano students learn and practice that included a chiroplast, guide-mains, dactylion to suspend fingers on springs, pocket hand exerciser, and technicon among others that promised perfection with less work?

5. What Hungarian composer wildly gesticulated back and forth all over the keyboard when he played?

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