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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. In what year was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?
(a) 1749.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1714.
(d) 1780.

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

3. In the late 18th century, piano-playing techniques changed from Clementi's classic horizontal hand and arm level to outward-turned hands and wrists exemplified by whom?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

4. Where did Liszt have rooms between Weimar and Budapest?
(a) The Lourvre.
(b) Buckingham Palace.
(c) The Vatican.
(d) Dublin, Ireland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is used to describe the mid-eighteenth century disciplined style of piano playing in which the pianist plays notes written by a composer with some flexibility for tasteful improvisation and embellishment?

2. What is a term used to describe various tools invented to help young piano students learn and practice that included a chiroplast, guide-mains, dactylion to suspend fingers on springs, pocket hand exerciser, and technicon among others that promised perfection with less work?

3. What German Romantic composer of orchestral and choral works was born in 1809 in Hamburg?

4. Old Arpeggio recommended pressing the keys with energy and vigor rather than striking them and kneading tender passages with "fingers of" what?

5. What refers to an early keyboard instrument producing a soft sound by means of metal blades attached to the inner ends of the keys gently striking the strings?

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