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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XI through XIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What German Romantic composer of orchestral and choral works was born in 1809 in Hamburg?
(a) Ignaz Moscheles.
(b) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(c) Felix Mendelssohn.
(d) Carl Czerny.

2. When was Vladimir von Pachmann born?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1902.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the piano become the most popular instrument to be played publicly?

2. In what year did Johannes Sebastian Bach die?

3. When was Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber born?

4. 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?

5. What son of a Hungarian official was born in 1811 became a priest in 1865 but had no authority to celebrate mass or hear confession?

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