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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. Where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born?
(a) London.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Paris.

2. Who held solo concerts in 1839 Rome?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Franz Liszt.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Carl Czerny.

3. Where did Frédéric Chopin die?
(a) Paris.
(b) Oslo.
(c) London.
(d) Vienna.

4. What nickname referred to Eugene d'Albert?
(a) "The Maestro."
(b) "Brahma of the Keyboard."
(c) "Chopinzee."
(d) "The Little Giant."

5. What German composer and a notable piano virtuoso of the Romantic period studied under Julius Benedict, Carl Czerny, and Simon Sechte?
(a) Antoine de Kontski.
(b) Theodor Döhler.
(c) William Sterndale Bennett.
(d) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

Short Answer Questions

1. The "Leschetizky system" assigned pupils who needed more training to an assistant for how long or until they met Leschetizky's standards?

2. What Russian pianist played Chopin's Polonaise for an amazed critic, George Bernard Shaw?

3. Under whom did Ignacy Jan Paderewski study piano?

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

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

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