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

2. Where was Johann Hummel from?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Russia.
(c) Austria.
(d) Scotland.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A primitive cylinder recording of Brahms was found dated from what year?

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

3. When was Johann Hummel born?

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

5. What refers to a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century?

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