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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. From 1750 to 1824, London music shops grew from 12 to how many?
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 150.
(d) 200.

2. Who invented the piano?
(a) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(b) John Field.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Muzio Clementi.

3. What German pianist and composer was a pupil of Hummel and Sechter and became court pianist in St Petersburg?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Friedrich Chopin.
(d) Carl Czerny.

4. 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?
(a) Organ.
(b) Harpsichord.
(c) Clavichord.
(d) Lute.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What great pianist played piano as he sat erect and formal with minimal movement and earned the nickname Old Arpeggio?

2. When was Frédéric Chopin born?

3. When was Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber born?

4. Two Hungarian countesses wrestled to the ground over what object belonging to Franz Liszt?

5. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?

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