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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XX through XXIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What student of Franz Liszt was described as having touch that was "soft as velvet and as strong as a man's"?
(a) Amy Fay.
(b) Sophie Mentor.
(c) Adele aus der Ohe.
(d) Clara Schumann.

2. In the late 18th century, piano-playing techniques changed from Clementi's classic horizontal hand and arm level to outward-turned hands and wrists exemplified by whom?
(a) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

3. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk die?
(a) 1815.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1902.

4. Who married composer Robert Schumann, wore black in his memory, and was the authority on his music?
(a) Mary Schumann.
(b) Andrea Schumann.
(c) Clara Schumann.
(d) Louise Schumann.

5. Two Hungarian countesses wrestled to the ground over what object belonging to Franz Liszt?
(a) An autograph.
(b) A piano tuner.
(c) A ring.
(d) A snuffbox.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which student of Franz Liszt is described as having musical skill that was mostly telling tales published in "Music Study in Germany"?

2. In what year was the piano invented?

3. Where was William Sterndale Bennett from?

4. Where was Anton Rubinstein born?

5. What term is used to describe the mid-eighteenth century disciplined style of piano playing in which the pianist plays notes written by a composer with some flexibility for tasteful improvisation and embellishment?

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