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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. What musician helped establish the German school and played clearly, analytically, and precisely with authority?
(a) Clara Schumann.
(b) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(c) Felix Mendelssohn.
(d) Hans von Bulow.

2. The "Leschetizky system" assigned pupils who needed more training to an assistant for how long or until they met Leschetizky's standards?
(a) Three years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Six months.
(d) One year.

3. What pianist was born in April 28, 1873 in New Malden, Surrey, England?
(a) Muzio Clementi.
(b) John Field.
(c) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(d) Harold Bauer.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Hungarian composer wildly gesticulated back and forth all over the keyboard when he played?

2. 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?

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

4. When was Frédéric Chopin born?

5. What Polish piano-player could not play two correct notes in a row and always played fortissimo?

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