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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXIV and XXV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What musical term refers to playing notes of a chord one after another rather than at one time?
(a) Stacatto.
(b) Legato.
(c) Arpeggio.
(d) Fugue.

2. What pianist was born November 14, 1778, in Bohemia?
(a) Ignaz Moscheles.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.

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

4. Who was the first great pianist who made a clear break with classicism to set romantic pianism on its course?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Friedrich Chopin.

5. In what year did Leopold Godowsky suffer a stroke?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1878.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Sigismond Thalberg debut in New York and play fifty-six concerts?

2. What Polish piano-player could not play two correct notes in a row and always played fortissimo?

3. What Irish pianist, composer, and teacher was born in Dublin in 1782?

4. What is a term used to describe various tools invented to help young piano students learn and practice that included a chiroplast, guide-mains, dactylion to suspend fingers on springs, pocket hand exerciser, and technicon among others that promised perfection with less work?

5. What nickname did the pianist Vladimir de Pachmann acquire?

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