Author Question: In a piano duel with Steibelt, Beethoven once A) closed the lid on his opponents fingers B) ... (Read 59 times)

SO00 · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

In a piano duel with Steibelt, Beethoven once

A) closed the lid on his opponents fingers

B) grabbed the cellist's music, put it on the piano rack upside down, made the music into a theme and then improvised on it

C) played the entire work that Steibelt had performed in retrograde inversion

D) slipped out before the end of the competition

E) played his composition lying with his head under the keyboard and his arms crossed over his head on the keys

Question 2

Which seventeenth century Italian genre of vocal music was usually performed before a select group of listeners in a private residence?

What will be an ideal response?