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

2. When did Chopin arrive in Paris as a fully-developed composer and pianist?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1845.

3. 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?
(a) Clavichord.
(b) Lute.
(c) Harpsichord.
(d) Organ.

4. Where was Franz Liszt musical director and the location of the headquarters for "Music of the Future"?
(a) Liszt court.
(b) Hammel court.
(c) Weimar court.
(d) Buckingham court.

5. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?
(a) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Carl Czerny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What German pianist and composer was a pupil of Hummel and Sechter and became court pianist in St Petersburg?

2. 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?

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

4. When was Frédéric Chopin born?

5. What German Romantic composer of orchestral and choral works was born in 1809 in Hamburg?

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