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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XIV through XIX.

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) Franz Liszt.
(c) Friedrich Chopin.
(d) Bertold Hummel.

2. Where did Frédéric Chopin die?
(a) London.
(b) Oslo.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Paris.

3. What musical term refers to playing notes of a chord one after another rather than at one time?
(a) Fugue.
(b) Arpeggio.
(c) Stacatto.
(d) Legato.

4. What Austrian child prodigy made his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a Mozart piano concerto?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

5. What term refers to a form of music also called counterpoint in which several simultaneous melodies are woven together into a harmonious whole that was fostered by Johann Sebastian Bach?
(a) Legato.
(b) Arpeggio.
(c) Fugue.
(d) Contrapuntal style.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Chapter VI, In the Interim describes the last two decades of what century?

3. When did Sigismond Thalberg die?

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

5. Where was Johann Hummel from?

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