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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. Thalberg fully retired from playing with not even a piano at home in what year?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1863.
(d) 1919.

2. Chopin introduced changes in fingering and what that remained stylish into the next century?
(a) Fugues.
(b) Chords.
(c) Pedaling.
(d) Keys.

3. When was Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber born?
(a) 1756.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1786.

4. Where was Annette Essipoff from?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Russia.
(d) Italy.

5. What German pianist, conductor, and composer of Czech birth was a pupil of B. D. Weber in Prague and of Albrechtsberger and Salieri in Vienna?
(a) Ignaz Moscheles.
(b) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Carl Czerny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Ignacy Jan Paderewski from?

2. What was an ill-defined method of balanced playing where stronger emphasized notes were offset by lesser emphasized notes?

3. When was Johann Hummel born?

4. From 1750 to 1824, London music shops grew from 12 to how many?

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

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