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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VIII through X.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Johannes Sebastian Bach.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Carl Czerny.

3. What Irish pianist, composer, and teacher was born in Dublin in 1782?
(a) Muzio Clementi.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(d) John Field.

4. In what year did the romantic upheaval take place in music?
(a) 1754.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1798.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invented the piano?

2. From 1750 to 1824, London music shops grew from 12 to how many?

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

4. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."

5. When did Chopin arrive in Paris as a fully-developed composer and pianist?

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