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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXIV and XXV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What German pianist, composer, piano teacher, and piano manufacturer was born in 1785?
(a) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(b) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

2. What Hungarian composer wildly gesticulated back and forth all over the keyboard when he played?
(a) Bertold Hummel.
(b) Sigismond Thalberg.
(c) Friedrich Chopin.
(d) Franz Liszt.

3. What nickname did the pianist Leopold Godowsky go by?
(a) "Chopinzee."
(b) "The Piano God."
(c) "Brahma of the Keyboard."
(d) "The Little Giant."

4. Paderewski did not receive systematic instruction until what age?
(a) 16.
(b) 13.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

5. What nickname did the pianist Vladimir de Pachmann acquire?
(a) "Brahma of the Keyboard."
(b) "Chopinzee."
(c) "The Maestro."
(d) "The Little Giant."

Short Answer Questions

1. Under whom did Leopold Godowsky study for three years?

2. What term is used to describe the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century virtuoso style of piano playing in which a pianist plays with expanded flexibility?

3. When was Johann Hummel born?

4. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?

5. In what year did Leopold Godowsky suffer a stroke?

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