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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. What was an ill-defined method of balanced playing where stronger emphasized notes were offset by lesser emphasized notes?
(a) Arpeggio.
(b) Legato.
(c) Tempo rubato.
(d) Fugue.

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

3. 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)
(b) Bravura.
(c)
(d)

4. The "Leschetizky system" assigned pupils who needed more training to an assistant for how long or until they met Leschetizky's standards?
(a) One year.
(b) Six months.
(c) Three years.
(d) Two years.

5. Whose austere Russian appearance produced organized, impeccably delivered serious sonorities with musical elegance and exquisitely finished phrases?
(a) Paderewski's.
(b) Isadora Duncan's.
(c) Josef Lhevinne's.
(d) Sergei Rachmaninoff's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Eugene d'Albert born?

2. What country did Eugene d'Albert consider to be his spiritual home?

3. When did Josef Hofmann make his Hamburg debut?

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

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

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