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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 pianist was born November 14, 1778, in Bohemia?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(d) Ignaz Moscheles.

2. When was Johann Hummel born?
(a) 1745.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1778.

3. 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) Cubism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Classicism.
(d) Modernism.

4. When was Vladimir von Pachmann born?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1848.

5. What German pianist, composer, piano teacher, and piano manufacturer was born in 1785?
(a) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(b) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What celebrated pianist and composer was born March 10 1832 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England?

2. What term is used to identify a type of music that is a singing, nuanced, fluffy, polite, and melodic approach developed after Bach's death when the heavy contrapuntal style used in the tempestuous fugue fell into disfavor?

3. In what year did Johannes Sebastian Bach die?

4. What is the name of a term used to describe a form of music in which themes successively repeat?

5. What pianist was born in April 28, 1873 in New Malden, Surrey, England?

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