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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXVI and XXVII.

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) Sophie Mentor.
(b) Adele aus der Ohe.
(c) Amy Fay.
(d) Clara Schumann.

2. Where was William Sterndale Bennett from?
(a) France.
(b) The United States.
(c) Canada.
(d) Great Britain.

3. In what year was the piano invented?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1709.
(c) 1523.
(d) 1654.

4. What Polish piano-player could not play two correct notes in a row and always played fortissimo?
(a) Antoine de Kontski.
(b) Theodor Döhler.
(c) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(d) William Sterndale Bennett.

5. What is the name of a term used to describe a piano playing style that was a brilliant romanticist musical approach that transcended technique and was made famous by Franz Liszt and others?
(a)
(b)
(c) Bravura.
(d)

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname did the pianist Leopold Godowsky go by?

2. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk return to the United States to give a New York concert?

3. Who is Anton Rubinstein described as looking and playing like?

4. In what year did Johannes Sebastian Bach die?

5. What nickname did the pianist Vladimir de Pachmann acquire?

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