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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 German composer and pianist is considered to have been the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music?
(a) Theodor Leschetizky.
(b) Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
(c) Ludwig van Beethoven.
(d) Eugene d'Albert.

2. What contemporary pianist of Teresa Carreno called her a "goddess" despite her lack of discipline?
(a) Claudio Arrau.
(b) Alfred Grunfeld.
(c) Vassily Sapellnikoff.
(d) Percy Grainger.

3. What great pianist played piano as he sat erect and formal with minimal movement and earned the nickname Old Arpeggio?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Sigismond Thalberg.
(c) Friedrich Chopin.
(d) Carl Czerny.

4. What pianist wrote music that took "remarkable stretch" and "peculiar hand formation" to reach his left-hand extensions?
(a) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(b) Muzio Clementi.
(c) John Field.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

5. What is a term used to describe various tools invented to help young piano students learn and practice that included a chiroplast, guide-mains, dactylion to suspend fingers on springs, pocket hand exerciser, and technicon among others that promised perfection with less work?
(a) Etudes and scales.
(b) Devices and mechanisms.
(c) Legato and stacatto.
(d) Etude and arpeggio.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born?

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

3. Paderewski did not receive systematic instruction until what age?

4. Who was Liszt's favorite female student?

5. In what year did Johannes Sebastian Bach die?

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