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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXX through XXXII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Leopold Godowsky suffer a stroke?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1878.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1911.

2. Who credited Nicholas Rubinstein as his chief teacher and said Liszt was too old to teach him?
(a) Alfred Grunfeld.
(b) Saint-Saens.
(c) Moriz Rosenthal.
(d) Emil von Sauer.

3. What Austrian child prodigy made his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a Mozart piano concerto?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

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

5. What pianist was born November 14, 1778, in Bohemia?
(a) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Carl Czerny.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Leopold de Meyer debut in America?

2. When did Chopin arrive in Paris as a fully-developed composer and pianist?

3. 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?

4. In what year was Harold Bauer born?

5. What is an English piano manufacturer founded in 1728 by Burkat Shudi and continued after his death in 1773?

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