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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 nickname referred to Eugene d'Albert?
(a) "The Maestro."
(b) "Chopinzee."
(c) "The Little Giant."
(d) "Brahma of the Keyboard."

2. Where was Anton Rubinstein born?
(a) Czechoslavakia.
(b) Austria.
(c) Poland.
(d) Russia.

3. What country did Eugene d'Albert consider to be his spiritual home?
(a) Germany.
(b) Scotland.
(c) France.
(d) Vienna.

4. What German pianist and composer was a pupil of Hummel and Sechter and became court pianist in St Petersburg?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Friedrich Chopin.
(d) Mozart.

5. Where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Vienna.
(d) New Orleans.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart die?

2. What pianist wrote music that took "remarkable stretch" and "peculiar hand formation" to reach his left-hand extensions?

3. Where was Chopin born?

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

5. In what year was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?

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