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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXVIII and XXIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nickname referred to Eugene d'Albert?
(a) "The Little Giant."
(b) "Chopinzee."
(c) "The Maestro."
(d) "Brahma of the Keyboard."

2. When did Josef Hofmann make his Hamburg debut?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1870.

3. Chopin introduced changes in fingering and what that remained stylish into the next century?
(a) Keys.
(b) Chords.
(c) Fugues.
(d) Pedaling.

4. Where was Ignacy Jan Paderewski from?
(a) France.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Russia.
(d) Poland.

5. What Polish student of Franz Liszt amazed fellow pianists with his speed, power and endurance?
(a) Emil von Sauer.
(b) Saint-Saens.
(c) Moriz Rosenthal.
(d) Alfred Grunfeld.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who held solo concerts in 1839 Rome?

2. When was Frédéric Chopin born?

3. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."

4. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?

5. What German pianist and composer was a pupil of Hummel and Sechter and became court pianist in St Petersburg?

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