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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XX through XXIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart die?
(a) 1791.
(b) 1810.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1745.

2. What is the name of a term used to describe a piano playing style that was a brilliant romanticist musical approach that transcended technique and was made famous by Franz Liszt and others?
(a)
(b) Bravura.
(c)
(d)

3. What German pianist, composer, piano teacher, and piano manufacturer was born in 1785?
(a) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(c) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

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

5. What Irish pianist, composer, and teacher was born in Dublin in 1782?
(a) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(b) John Field.
(c) Muzio Clementi.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who credited Nicholas Rubinstein as his chief teacher and said Liszt was too old to teach him?

3. When was Vladimir von Pachmann born?

4. Two Hungarian countesses wrestled to the ground over what object belonging to Franz Liszt?

5. Who was Liszt's favorite female student?

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