APF Piano Literature Championship

The Baroque period began in:

Schumann's performing career ended because of:

Felix Mendelssohn's sister, also a pianist, was named:

Chopin died of:

The average program length for a piano recital in the Romantic period

What composer's music is usually only played by super-virtuosos because of its difficulty?

How many piano concertos did Mozart write?

A movement in the classical period where pieces where the development became more intense

Scarlatti wrote this many sonatas for harpsichord

Which of these composers wrote less than 5 fugues?

Liszt was everything except:

What wasn't a technical advancement of the piano in the 19th century?

the rhythmic ambiguity of feeling 6 pulses in either 3 groups of 2 or 2 groups of 3

This Baroque composer mostly wrote vocal music, but wrote 8 suites for the piano

He wrote around 75 etudes for the piano.

This pianist liked to sit VERY low.

This composer wrote 4'33"

which of these is NOT a cyclical piano work?

NOT an impressionist composer

Dr. Cranmer's puppy is named

Can be (could have been) labeled a "super-virtuoso"

How many of each of the Partitas, English Suites and French Suites did Bach write?

He DID NOT write 3 piano sonatas

This 20th-century composer wrote the piano etude "Infinite Columns"

This is a minimalist composer

He was a neo-romantic composer

in figured bass, a root-position triad is notated as:

He based one of his pieces on a literary work by Dante

His most famous pieces are his "songs without words"

Dr. Minkstimas is from:

Why was Beethoven considered a bridge to Romanticism by Western music historians?

Beethoven wrote this many piano sonatas

Couperin's famous keyboard-teaching treatise

SERIALISM is:

How do you play an ornament that has a slash through it over a note?

Who was not a famous virtuoso and a composer?

a musical 'joke'

Mainly used as a practice instrument in the Baroque era

Dr. Cranmer's middle name is:

Usually a two-part form

Which of these composers did not write ETUDES?

This is the most musically intense part of Sonata-Allegro form

Which composer preferred longer slow movements?

The longest piece in Bach's keyboard repertoire

He wrote about 250 character pieces

The church mode beginning on "F" if you play only white keys. Used commonly in movie music.

NOT an example of a character piece

This instrument originally plucked strings with goose quills

Who said "Bach's WTC is the 'old testament' and Beethoven's 32 is the 'new testament'?

The most famous 19th century Hungarian composer

The romantic period differed from the classical era in all ways EXCEPT

An excellent example of a cyclic piano piece

The creator of the first fortepiano

putting two or more voices together simultaneously in a piece of music is called