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

2. Chapter VI, In the Interim describes the last two decades of what century?
(a) 19th.
(b) 17th.
(c) 18th.
(d) 16th.

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

4. Where was Eugene d'Albert born?
(a) The United States.
(b) Scotland.
(c) France.
(d) Denmark.

5. Ernest Hutcheson became president of what school of music?
(a) Vienna School of Music.
(b) New York University School of Music.
(c) Juilliard School of Music.
(d) Carnegie Mellon School of Music.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late 18th century, piano-playing techniques changed from Clementi's classic horizontal hand and arm level to outward-turned hands and wrists exemplified by whom?

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

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

4. What Polish student of Franz Liszt amazed fellow pianists with his speed, power and endurance?

5. What term is used to describe the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century virtuoso style of piano playing in which a pianist plays with expanded flexibility?

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