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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. Old Arpeggio recommended pressing the keys with energy and vigor rather than striking them and kneading tender passages with "fingers of" what?
(a) Velvet.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Silk.
(d) Glass.

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) Carl Czerny.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

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

4. How old was Paderewski when he debuted in 1887?
(a) 24.
(b) 30.
(c) 19.
(d) 16.

5. Chapter VI, In the Interim describes the last two decades of what century?
(a) 19th.
(b) 16th.
(c) 18th.
(d) 17th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was considered Liszt's equal and a "living impersonation of Chopin"?

2. What great pianist played piano as he sat erect and formal with minimal movement and earned the nickname Old Arpeggio?

3. Who was the first great pianist who made a clear break with classicism to set romantic pianism on its course?

4. When did Leopold de Meyer debut in America?

5. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?

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