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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did pianist Arthur Rubinstein make his American debut?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1906.

2. Who did Isaac Albeniz audition for in Budapest?
(a) Claudio Arrau.
(b) Franz Liszt.
(c) Claude Debussy.
(d) Alexander Scriabin.

3. At what age did Isaac Albebiz catch a train to a casino where he played piano for guests and gamblers?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 9.
(d) 14.

4. Where was the pianist Claudio Arrau from?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Spain.
(c) Canada.
(d) Chile.

5. What term refers to any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d) Percussion.

6. Who played difficult music fast and accurately but died in 1951 at the piano in Carnegie Hall?
(a) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
(b) Franz Liszt.
(c) Claude Debussy.
(d) Simon Barrere.

7. In what year did Glenn Gould retire?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1954.

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

9. At what age did Glenn Gould begin playing piano?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

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

11. How old was Wilhelm Backhaus when he made his first concert tour?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

12. What Polish American pianist, composer, and teacher was known for his theories concerning the application of relaxed weight and economy of motion in piano playing?
(a) Franz Liszt.
(b) Ferruccio Busoni.
(c) Leopold Godowsky.
(d) Claude Debussy.

13. Vladimir de Pachmann dressed in a smelly, old gown he claimed was whose?
(a) Bach's.
(b) Beethoven's.
(c) Emil von Sauer's.
(d) Chopin's.

14. Who discovered Harold Bauer at twenty playing piano?
(a) Sergei Rachmaninoff.
(b) Josef Lhevinne.
(c) Johannes Sebastian Bach.
(d) Paderewski.

15. Where was Josef Hofmann born?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) The United States.
(c) Austria.
(d) Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who codified twentieth century theory of technique beyond Chopin's ideas?

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

3. Who sought ideal music he could play and compose and eventually settled on Mozart's twelve piano concertos at farewell concerts in 1922?

4. What term refers to an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in the fine arts, at singing or playing a musical instrument?

5. In what year was Maurizio Pollini born?

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