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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. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Friedrich Chopin.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Bertold Hummel.

2. Where did Liszt have rooms between Weimar and Budapest?
(a) Buckingham Palace.
(b) The Lourvre.
(c) The Vatican.
(d) Dublin, Ireland.

3. Two Hungarian countesses wrestled to the ground over what object belonging to Franz Liszt?
(a) A piano tuner.
(b) An autograph.
(c) A snuffbox.
(d) A ring.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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?

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

5. 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?

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