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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 Sigismond Thalberg debut in New York and play fifty-six concerts?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1845.

2. Who invented the piano?
(a) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(b) Muzio Clementi.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) John Field.

3. 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) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Carl Czerny.

4. Paris Conservatoire rejected what thirteen-year old for being "too savage"?
(a) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(b) William Sterndale Bennett.
(c) Theodor Döhler.
(d) Antoine de Kontski.

5. When was Ignacy Jan Paderewski born?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1872.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ernest Hutcheson became president of what school of music?

2. When did Harold Bauer make his American debut?

3. Who was the earliest-born pianist to be recorded?

4. What term is used to describe a form of playing that means connected consecutive notes without audible separation compared to staccato playing with distinct breaks between consecutive notes?

5. Where was Ignacy Jan Paderewski from?

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