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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXX through XXXII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What German pianist, conductor, and composer of Czech birth was a pupil of B. D. Weber in Prague and of Albrechtsberger and Salieri in Vienna?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

2. When did Josef Hofmann make his American debut?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1887.
(d) 1855.

3. When was Sergei Rachmaninoff born?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1873.

4. In what year did the romantic upheaval take place in music?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1754.

5. What term refers to a group of eight interrelated notes?
(a) Chord.
(b) Octave.
(c) Sonata.
(d) Scale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What musical school did Anton Rubinstein found?

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. Where was Annette Essipoff from?

4. When was Johann Hummel born?

5. What German composer and pianist is considered to have been the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music?

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