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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. When was Vladimir von Pachmann born?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1798.

2. 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?
(a) Fugue.
(b) Etude.
(c) Legato.
(d) Sonata.

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

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

5. Who was the first great pianist who made a clear break with classicism to set romantic pianism on its course?
(a) Friedrich Chopin.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Carl Czerny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chopin introduced changes in fingering and what that remained stylish into the next century?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?

5. In what year did Johannes Sebastian Bach die?

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