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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 musician played like a skilled de Pachmann, according to the author?
(a) Alfred Grunfeld.
(b) Moriz Rosenthal.
(c) Percy Grainger.
(d) Vassily Sapellnikoff.

2. In what year did Isaac Albeniz go to San Francisco before returning to Europe?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1948.

3. What is the name of a term used to describe a form of music in which themes successively repeat?
(a) Style galant.
(b) Fugue.
(c) Arpeggio.
(d) Legato.

4. Where was William Sterndale Bennett from?
(a) The United States.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Canada.
(d) France.

5. Where was Josef Hofmann born?
(a) Austria.
(b) The United States.
(c) Poland.
(d) Great Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Eugene d'Albert born?

2. What great pianist played piano as he sat erect and formal with minimal movement and earned the nickname Old Arpeggio?

3. What is the name of a term used to describe a piano playing style that was a brilliant romanticist musical approach that transcended technique and was made famous by Franz Liszt and others?

4. Who married composer Robert Schumann, wore black in his memory, and was the authority on his music?

5. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk return to the United States to give a New York concert?

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