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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXXVI through XXXVIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What instrument did Harold Bauer play as a child prodigy?
(a) Harpsichord.
(b) Violin.
(c) Saxophone.
(d) Organ.

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

3. 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) Clara Schumann.
(d) Amy Fay.

4. What term refers to an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in the fine arts, at singing or playing a musical instrument?
(a) Virtuoso.
(b) Master.
(c) Mentor.
(d) Maestro.

5. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?
(a) Ignaz Moscheles.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Johannes Sebastian Bach.
(d) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the musician Glenn Gould from?

2. Where was Rudolf Serkin sent to study at the age of nine?

3. What album by Glenn Gould is described as combining personality, ideas, bouncing rhythm and fast tempos?

4. What country did Eugene d'Albert consider to be his spiritual home?

5. What public university was founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music?

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