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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. How old was Anton Rubinstein when he debuted?
(a) 9.
(b) 11.
(c) 13.
(d) 15.

2. What style, perfect for piano, was invented in 1709 by Italian harpsichord-maker Bartolommeo Cristofori to play in salons?
(a) Style galant.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Classicism.
(d) Romanticism.

3. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?
(a) Friedrich Chopin.
(b) Bertold Hummel.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Franz Liszt.

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

5. What romantic Polish pianist born in 1830 spent most of his life after 1878 in Vienna?
(a) Ludwig van Beethoven.
(b) Theodor Leschetizky.
(c) Eugene d'Albert.
(d) Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Irish pianist, composer, and teacher was born in Dublin in 1782?

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. What is the name of a term used to describe a form of music in which themes successively repeat?

4. What is a term used to describe various tools invented to help young piano students learn and practice that included a chiroplast, guide-mains, dactylion to suspend fingers on springs, pocket hand exerciser, and technicon among others that promised perfection with less work?

5. What German composer and a notable piano virtuoso of the Romantic period studied under Julius Benedict, Carl Czerny, and Simon Sechte?

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