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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 Irish pianist, composer, and teacher was born in Dublin in 1782?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Muzio Clementi.
(c) John Field.
(d) Bartolomeo Cristofori.

2. Vladimir de Pachmann dressed in a smelly, old gown he claimed was whose?
(a) Chopin's.
(b) Beethoven's.
(c) Bach's.
(d) Emil von Sauer's.

3. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk die?
(a) 1815.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1869.

4. Under whom did Ignacy Jan Paderewski study piano?
(a) Theodor Leschetizky.
(b) Bartolommeo Cristofori.
(c) Eugene d'Albert.
(d) Ludwig van Beethoven.

5. What is an English piano manufacturer founded in 1728 by Burkat Shudi and continued after his death in 1773?
(a) Steinway.
(b) Henselt and Sons.
(c) Broadwood and Sons.
(d) Hammel and Sons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born?

2. What Hungarian composer wildly gesticulated back and forth all over the keyboard when he played?

3. What musical term refers to playing notes of a chord one after another rather than at one time?

4. Ernest Hutcheson became president of what school of music?

5. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."

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