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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. Chopin considered Bach and who to be the only two great composers?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Bertold Hummel.
(d) Franz Liszt.

2. What public university was founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music?
(a) Leipzig Conservatory.
(b) Vienna Conservatory.
(c) Mendelssohn Conservatory.
(d) Hamberg Conservatory.

3. What Polish piano-player could not play two correct notes in a row and always played fortissimo?
(a) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(b) Antoine de Kontski.
(c) Theodor Döhler.
(d) William Sterndale Bennett.

4. Who was considered Liszt's equal and a "living impersonation of Chopin"?
(a) Carl Tausig.
(b) Franz Liszt.
(c) Hans von Bulow.
(d) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Louis Moreau Gottschalk when he died?

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. Where did Frédéric Chopin die?

4. Paris Conservatoire rejected what thirteen-year old for being "too savage"?

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

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