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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXX through XXXII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nickname did the pianist Leopold Godowsky go by?
(a) "Chopinzee."
(b) "The Little Giant."
(c) "Brahma of the Keyboard."
(d) "The Piano God."

2. Chopin introduced changes in fingering and what that remained stylish into the next century?
(a) Keys.
(b) Chords.
(c) Pedaling.
(d) Fugues.

3. Where was Josef Hofmann born?
(a) Austria.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Poland.
(d) The United States.

4. Under whom did Leopold Godowsky study for three years?
(a) Saint-Saens.
(b) Moriz Rosenthal.
(c) Alfred Grunfeld.
(d) Percy Grainger.

5. In what year was the piano invented?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1709.
(c) 1654.
(d) 1523.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was described by the author as an incomparable pianist who added new theories and ideas about pedaling and sonority with new ideas of figuration and layout?

3. Where was Eugene d'Albert born?

4. Who held solo concerts in 1839 Rome?

5. What term refers to a group of eight interrelated notes?

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