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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XI through XIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?
(a) Franz Liszt.
(b) Friedrich Chopin.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Bertold Hummel.

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

3. What term refers to a group of eight interrelated notes?
(a) Chord.
(b) Octave.
(c) Sonata.
(d) Scale.

4. What German pianist, conductor, and composer of Czech birth was a pupil of B. D. Weber in Prague and of Albrechtsberger and Salieri in Vienna?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Chopin arrive in Paris as a fully-developed composer and pianist?

2. What is the name of a term used to describe a form of music in which themes successively repeat?

3. What musical term refers to playing notes of a chord one after another rather than at one time?

4. What refers to a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century?

5. Thalberg fully retired from playing with not even a piano at home in what year?

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