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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. What is an English piano manufacturer founded in 1728 by Burkat Shudi and continued after his death in 1773?
(a) Steinway.
(b) Henselt and Sons.
(c) Broadwood and Sons.
(d) Hammel and Sons.

2. What German pianist and composer was a pupil of Hummel and Sechter and became court pianist in St Petersburg?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Friedrich Chopin.
(d) Carl Czerny.

3. What country did Eugene d'Albert consider to be his spiritual home?
(a) Vienna.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

4. What public university was founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music?
(a) Leipzig Conservatory.
(b) Vienna Conservatory.
(c) Hamberg Conservatory.
(d) Mendelssohn Conservatory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chopin considered Bach and who to be the only two great composers?

2. Where was Ignacy Jan Paderewski from?

3. When was Ignacy Jan Paderewski born?

4. How old was Paderewski when he debuted in 1887?

5. What son of a Hungarian official was born in 1811 became a priest in 1865 but had no authority to celebrate mass or hear confession?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did John Field begin training on the piano? With whom?

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

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

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

5. Who was Theodor Leschetizky? Where was he from and what contributions did he make to music?

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

7. When and where did piano playing arise in history? What instruments led up to the development of the piano?

8. What four pianists are described in Chapter VII, From Ireland to Bohemia? Who is noted as the best of the group?

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

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

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