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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XIV through XIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who was considered Liszt's equal and a "living impersonation of Chopin"?
(a) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(b) Hans von Bulow.
(c) Carl Tausig.
(d) Franz Liszt.

3. Where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born?
(a) London.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Paris.

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?
(a) Franz Liszt.
(b) Sigismond Thalberg.
(c) Friedrich Chopin.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

5. What public university was founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music?
(a) Vienna Conservatory.
(b) Leipzig Conservatory.
(c) Mendelssohn Conservatory.
(d) Hamberg Conservatory.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Frédéric Chopin born?

2. Chopin introduced changes in fingering and what that remained stylish into the next century?

3. 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?

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

5. What great pianist played piano as he sat erect and formal with minimal movement and earned the nickname Old Arpeggio?

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