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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. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?
(a) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Johannes Sebastian Bach.
(d) Ignaz Moscheles.

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?
(a) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Ignaz Moscheles.

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

4. What pianist wrote music that took "remarkable stretch" and "peculiar hand formation" to reach his left-hand extensions?
(a) Muzio Clementi.
(b) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(c) John Field.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

5. What is the name of a term used to describe a form of music in which themes successively repeat?
(a) Style galant.
(b) Arpeggio.
(c) Fugue.
(d) Legato.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."

3. Who was the earliest-born pianist to be recorded?

4. What musical term refers to playing notes of a chord one after another rather than at one time?

5. What public university was founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music?

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