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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VIII through X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Vladimir von Pachmann born?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1798.

2. What term refers to a form of music also called counterpoint in which several simultaneous melodies are woven together into a harmonious whole that was fostered by Johann Sebastian Bach?
(a) Fugue.
(b) Legato.
(c) Contrapuntal style.
(d) Arpeggio.

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

4. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?
(a) Johannes Sebastian Bach.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

5. What pianist wrote music that took "remarkable stretch" and "peculiar hand formation" to reach his left-hand extensions?
(a) Muzio Clementi.
(b) John Field.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Bartolomeo Cristofori.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where did Liszt have rooms between Weimar and Budapest?

3. When was Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber born?

4. What son of a Hungarian official was born in 1811 became a priest in 1865 but had no authority to celebrate mass or hear confession?

5. 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?

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