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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VI and VII.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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.
2. What term is used to identify a type of music that is a singing, nuanced, fluffy, polite, and melodic approach developed after Bach's death when the heavy contrapuntal style used in the tempestuous fugue fell into disfavor?
(a) Sonata.
(b) Etude.
(c) Legato.
(d) Fugue.
3. When was Johann Hummel born?
(a) 1745.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1778.
(d) 1902.
4. What pianist was born in April 28, 1873 in New Malden, Surrey, England?
(a) Muzio Clementi.
(b) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(c) John Field.
(d) Harold Bauer.
5. When was Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber born?
(a) 1756.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1786.
(d) 1802.
Short Answer Questions
1. What pianist was born November 14, 1778, in Bohemia?
2. 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?
3. From 1750 to 1824, London music shops grew from 12 to how many?
4. In what year was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?
5. 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?
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