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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. When did Chopin arrive in Paris as a fully-developed composer and pianist?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1831.

2. What musical term refers to playing notes of a chord one after another rather than at one time?
(a) Arpeggio.
(b) Fugue.
(c) Legato.
(d) Stacatto.

3. What nickname did the pianist Leopold Godowsky go by?
(a) "Brahma of the Keyboard."
(b) "Chopinzee."
(c) "The Little Giant."
(d) "The Piano God."

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

5. When was Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber born?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1786.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the rival of Franz Liszt?

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

3. Where was Franz Liszt musical director and the location of the headquarters for "Music of the Future"?

4. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?

5. What romantic Polish pianist born in 1830 spent most of his life after 1878 in Vienna?

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