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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 celebrated pianist and composer was born March 10 1832 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) John Field.
(c) Muzio Clementi.
(d) Bartolomeo Cristofori.

2. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?
(a) Ignaz Moscheles.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(d) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

3. In the late 18th century, piano-playing techniques changed from Clementi's classic horizontal hand and arm level to outward-turned hands and wrists exemplified by whom?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Carl Czerny.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what year was the piano invented?

4. What German pianist, conductor, and composer of Czech birth was a pupil of B. D. Weber in Prague and of Albrechtsberger and Salieri in Vienna?

5. In what year did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart die?

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