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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXVIII and XXIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Franz Liszt musical director and the location of the headquarters for "Music of the Future"?
(a) Weimar court.
(b) Liszt court.
(c) Hammel court.
(d) Buckingham court.

2. Where was Eugene d'Albert born?
(a) France.
(b) Denmark.
(c) The United States.
(d) Scotland.

3. Who was Anton Rubinstein's greatest pupil, according to the author?
(a) Alfred Brendel.
(b) Maurizio Pollini.
(c) Glenn Gould.
(d) Josef Hofmann.

4. When was Sergei Rachmaninoff born?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1941.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the romantic upheaval take place in music?

2. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?

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

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

5. What term refers to an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in the fine arts, at singing or playing a musical instrument?

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