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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XIV through XIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What public university was founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music?
(a) Hamberg Conservatory.
(b) Mendelssohn Conservatory.
(c) Leipzig Conservatory.
(d) Vienna Conservatory.

2. What son of a Hungarian official was born in 1811 became a priest in 1865 but had no authority to celebrate mass or hear confession?
(a) Friedrich Chopin.
(b) Sigismond Thalberg.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Franz Liszt.

3. In the late 18th century, piano-playing techniques changed from Clementi's classic horizontal hand and arm level to outward-turned hands and wrists exemplified by whom?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

4. Where did Liszt have rooms between Weimar and Budapest?
(a) The Lourvre.
(b) Dublin, Ireland.
(c) Buckingham Palace.
(d) The Vatican.

5. In what year did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart die?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1745.
(c) 1810.
(d) 1791.

Short Answer Questions

1. What German pianist, composer, piano teacher, and piano manufacturer was born in 1785?

2. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?

3. Where was Johann Hummel from?

4. When did Sigismond Thalberg die?

5. What is the name of a term used to describe a form of music in which themes successively repeat?

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