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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 musician played like a skilled de Pachmann, according to the author?
(a) Percy Grainger.
(b) Alfred Grunfeld.
(c) Vassily Sapellnikoff.
(d) Moriz Rosenthal.

2. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Johannes Sebastian Bach.
(d) Ignaz Moscheles.

3. What German pianist and composer was a pupil of Hummel and Sechter and became court pianist in St Petersburg?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Friedrich Chopin.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

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

5. When did Leopold de Meyer debut in America?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thalberg fully retired from playing with not even a piano at home in what year?

2. Chopin introduced changes in fingering and what that remained stylish into the next century?

3. Where did Frédéric Chopin die?

4. When was Johann Hummel born?

5. In what year was Henri Herz born?

(see the answer key)

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