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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 musical school did Anton Rubinstein found?
(a) The Julliard School of Music.
(b) The Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
(c) The New York University School of Music.
(d) The Vienna Conservatory.

2. What album by Glenn Gould is described as combining personality, ideas, bouncing rhythm and fast tempos?
(a) "Moonlight Sonata."
(b) "Goldberg Sonata in D Minor."
(c) "Rhapsody in Blue."
(d) "Goldberg Variations."

3. What musical instrument consists of one or more sets of pipes sounded by means of compressed air, played by means of one or more keyboards, and capable of producing a wide range of musical effects?
(a) Clavichord.
(b) Harpsichord.
(c) Lute.
(d) Organ.

4. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Bertold Hummel.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Friedrich Chopin.

5. In what year was Maurizio Pollini born?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invented the piano?

2. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."

3. What Irish pianist, composer, and teacher was born in Dublin in 1782?

4. In what year did Josef Hofmann play 255 different works in twenty-one concerts without repeating any?

5. Walter Gieseking played piano at what age?

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