Harpsichord Quiz for 2021
prepared by Douglas Amrine
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Test your knowledge of early keyboard players, instruments, instrument makers and composers. You may wish to have Google AND a couple of good reference books to hand. And don't worry, this is completely anonymous - no one will know whether you are a genius or a novice (unless you tell them yourself).
1. Who is the most famous Portuguese harpsichord builder from the Baroque era?
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2. The harpsichordist Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (1872-1948) lived in a historic house in England with her various husbands and lovers. What was the name of the house?
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3. Gustav Leonhardt learned a non-keyboard instrument as a child. What was it?
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4. How old was Domenico Scarlatti when he published his famous Essercizi?
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5. In the imperial palace in Petrópolis, Brazil there is a spinet, restored to playing condition, which was built in 1785. Where was the builder of this spinet born?
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6. What is the word for soundboard in Finnish?
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7. Who wrote the famous treatise in 1558 which describes different types of meantone, such as 2/7-comma?
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8. In which museum is the harpsichord which was said to be Bach’s harpsichord, then was said NOT to be Bach’s harpsichord, but may in fact be Bach’s harpsichord after all?
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9. The 1745 Dulcken in the Smithsonian has which feature?
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10. The instrument by Giovanni Ferrini from 1746, now in the Bologna collection, is unusual for which reason?
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11. Wally Zuckermann (1922-2018), the inventor of the famous kits, did much more than build harpsichords. Which of the following was NOT one of his occupations at some time in his long life? (Image:  Ericbritton)
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12. The painting of a musical group including Buxtehude and Reinken, by Johannes Voorhout, is now in the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte. It once belonged to harpsichord and clavichord maker Hugh Gough (1916-1997) who, in his late years, kept it in his apartment in which city?
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13. The renowned harpsichord builder Jean-Henry Hemsch arrived in Paris in around 1740. On which street did he live?
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14. Music by Johann Jakob Froberger, among others, was in the archive of the Berliner Singakademie, founded in 1791. The archive was lost after World War II, but eventually turned up in which city?
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15. When Sweelinck was organist at Amsterdam’s Oude Kerk, he lived nearby on a street named after which animal?
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16. Bach published his ‘Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen’ (now called the Goldberg Variations) in 1741 or 1742. His personal copy came to light in 1974. What was interesting about this copy?
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17. What was the name of the Antwerp guild to which the Ruckers family belonged?
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18. Jane Clark wrote a fascinating book called “The Mirror of Human Life: Reflections on François Couperin’s Pièces de Clavecin”. What did she suggest as an explanation for the title of ‘Les Baricades Misterieuses’?
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19. In 1727 someone wrote a book about a new organ, complaining that it was tuned in equal temperament. In which city was this?
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20. Which pop star loves to play the harpsichord - sometimes even on stage?
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