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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. Where did Paderewski debut in 1887?
(a) New York.
(b) Oslo.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Paris.

2. When did Chopin arrive in Paris as a fully-developed composer and pianist?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1845.

3. What great pianist played piano as he sat erect and formal with minimal movement and earned the nickname Old Arpeggio?
(a) Friedrich Chopin.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Sigismond Thalberg.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

4. Where was Josef Hofmann born?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) Austria.
(c) The United States.
(d) Poland.

5. What musical school did Anton Rubinstein found?
(a) The Julliard School of Music.
(b) The Vienna Conservatory.
(c) The Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
(d) The New York University School of Music.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Franz Liszt musical director and the location of the headquarters for "Music of the Future"?

2. 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?

3. In what year did the romantic upheaval take place in music?

4. Whose austere Russian appearance produced organized, impeccably delivered serious sonorities with musical elegance and exquisitely finished phrases?

5. Where was Ignacy Jan Paderewski from?

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