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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VI and VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Austrian child prodigy made his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a Mozart piano concerto?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

2. 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?
(a) Modernism.
(b) Classicism.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Cubism.

3. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?
(a) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Johannes Sebastian Bach.
(d) Ignaz Moscheles.

4. In what year did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart die?
(a) 1810.
(b) 1745.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1791.

5. What pianist was born in April 28, 1873 in New Malden, Surrey, England?
(a) John Field.
(b) Harold Bauer.
(c) Muzio Clementi.
(d) Bartolomeo Cristofori.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pianist was born November 14, 1778, in Bohemia?

2. What musical instrument consists of one or more sets of pipes sounded by means of compressed air, played by means of one or more keyboards, and capable of producing a wide range of musical effects?

3. Chapter VI, In the Interim describes the last two decades of what century?

4. What German pianist, composer, piano teacher, and piano manufacturer was born in 1785?

5. What pianist wrote music that took "remarkable stretch" and "peculiar hand formation" to reach his left-hand extensions?

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