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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) Ignaz Moscheles.
(b) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Carl Czerny.

2. When did the piano become the most popular instrument to be played publicly?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1772.
(c) 1814.
(d) 1800.

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

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?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Carl Czerny.

5. A primitive cylinder recording of Brahms was found dated from what year?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1889.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Austrian child prodigy made his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a Mozart piano concerto?

2. What is an English piano manufacturer founded in 1728 by Burkat Shudi and continued after his death in 1773?

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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