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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. Leschetizky identified three elements of being a great pianist that included being a what?
(a) German.
(b) American.
(c) Mathematician.
(d) Child prodigy.

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) Franz Liszt.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

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

4. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?
(a) Bertold Hummel.
(b) Franz Liszt.
(c) Friedrich Chopin.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

5. What is the name of a term used to describe a piano playing style that was a brilliant romanticist musical approach that transcended technique and was made famous by Franz Liszt and others?
(a) Bravura.
(b)
(c)
(d)

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in the fine arts, at singing or playing a musical instrument?

2. How old was Paderewski when he debuted in 1887?

3. Chopin considered Bach and who to be the only two great composers?

4. When was Ignacy Jan Paderewski born?

5. Where did Paderewski debut in 1887?

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