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

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

3. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."
(a) Etudes.
(b) Harmonies.
(c) Scales.
(d) Sonatas.

4. 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) Franz Liszt.
(b) Sigismond Thalberg.
(c) Friedrich Chopin.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

5. What country did Eugene d'Albert consider to be his spiritual home?
(a) Germany.
(b) Vienna.
(c) France.
(d) Scotland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What musical school did Anton Rubinstein found?

2. Where was Ignacy Jan Paderewski from?

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

4. How old was Josef Hofmann when he gave his debut recital?

5. How old was Josef Hofmann when he made his American debut?

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