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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. 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?
(a) Claude Debussy.
(b) Claudio Arrau.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Alexander Scriabin.

2. What term is used to describe the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century virtuoso style of piano playing in which a pianist plays with expanded flexibility?
(a) Classicism.
(b) Cubism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Romanticism.

3. Who discovered Harold Bauer at twenty playing piano?
(a) Josef Lhevinne.
(b) Johannes Sebastian Bach.
(c) Sergei Rachmaninoff.
(d) Paderewski.

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

5. What German pianist, composer, piano teacher, and piano manufacturer was born in 1785?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(c) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(d) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Old Arpeggio recommended pressing the keys with energy and vigor rather than striking them and kneading tender passages with "fingers of" what?

2. How old was Isaac Albeniz when he debuted in 1864 Spain?

3. Who was considered Liszt's equal and a "living impersonation of Chopin"?

4. Who did Isaac Albeniz audition for in Budapest?

5. In what decade did America discourage pupils away from European schools like Paris Conservatoire?

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