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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXVI and XXVII.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What musician played like a skilled de Pachmann, according to the author?
(a) Vassily Sapellnikoff.
(b) Moriz Rosenthal.
(c) Percy Grainger.
(d) Alfred Grunfeld.

3. What German composer and a notable piano virtuoso of the Romantic period studied under Julius Benedict, Carl Czerny, and Simon Sechte?
(a) William Sterndale Bennett.
(b) Antoine de Kontski.
(c) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(d) Theodor Döhler.

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

5. Where was Johann Hummel from?
(a) Russia.
(b) Austria.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Scotland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was William Sterndale Bennett from?

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

3. Who was the earliest-born pianist to be recorded?

4. What musical term refers to playing notes of a chord one after another rather than at one time?

5. When was Frédéric Chopin born?

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