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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. In what year did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart die?
(a) 1745.
(b) 1810.
(c) 1791.
(d) 1897.

2. What Irish pianist, composer, and teacher was born in Dublin in 1782?
(a) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(b) John Field.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Muzio Clementi.

3. Under whom did Ignacy Jan Paderewski study piano?
(a) Bartolommeo Cristofori.
(b) Eugene d'Albert.
(c) Ludwig van Beethoven.
(d) Theodor Leschetizky.

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

5. What term refers to a form of music also called counterpoint in which several simultaneous melodies are woven together into a harmonious whole that was fostered by Johann Sebastian Bach?
(a) Fugue.
(b) Arpeggio.
(c) Contrapuntal style.
(d) Legato.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what age did Isaac Albebiz catch a train to a casino where he played piano for guests and gamblers?

3. When did Leopold de Meyer debut in America?

4. Where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born?

5. Where did Paderewski debut in 1887?

(see the answer key)

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