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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. Where was Eugene d'Albert born?
(a) The United States.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Denmark.
(d) France.

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

3. What term is used to describe the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century virtuoso style of piano playing in which a pianist plays with expanded flexibility?
(a) Cubism.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Classicism.
(d) Romanticism.

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

5. What Hungarian composer wildly gesticulated back and forth all over the keyboard when he played?
(a) Bertold Hummel.
(b) Friedrich Chopin.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Sigismond Thalberg.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What style, perfect for piano, was invented in 1709 by Italian harpsichord-maker Bartolommeo Cristofori to play in salons?

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

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

5. When was Vladimir von Pachmann born?

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