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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 pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?
(a) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(b) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Carl Czerny.

2. Who was the first great pianist who made a clear break with classicism to set romantic pianism on its course?
(a) Friedrich Chopin.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

3. Chopin considered Bach and who to be the only two great composers?
(a) Franz Liszt.
(b) Bertold Hummel.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Mozart.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who played melody with his thumbs in the middle of the keyboard while his fingers played arpeggios up and down the keyboard?

2. Where was Eugene d'Albert born?

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

4. What German pianist and composer was a pupil of Hummel and Sechter and became court pianist in St Petersburg?

5. Where did Liszt have rooms between Weimar and Budapest?

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