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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXX through XXXII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pianist performed at four and memorized and played all the Beethoven symphonies at eight on piano?
(a) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(b) Felix Mendelssohn.
(c) William Sterndale Bennett.
(d) Clara Schumann.

2. Which student of Franz Liszt is described as having musical skill that was mostly telling tales published in "Music Study in Germany"?
(a) Sophie Mentor.
(b) Adele aus der Ohe.
(c) Clara Schumann.
(d) Amy Fay.

3. Ernest Hutcheson became president of what school of music?
(a) New York University School of Music.
(b) Vienna School of Music.
(c) Carnegie Mellon School of Music.
(d) Juilliard School of Music.

4. What musician debuted in 1906 America and amazed other pianists with his "quasi-glissando" that seemed impossible?
(a) Claude Debussy.
(b) Simon Barrere.
(c) Josef Lhevinne.
(d) Mischa Levitzski.

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) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(d) William Sterndale Bennett.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument did Harold Bauer play as a child prodigy?

2. When did Sigismond Thalberg die?

3. What nickname referred to Eugene d'Albert?

4. 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?

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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