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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Anton Rubinstein's greatest pupil, according to the author?
(a) Glenn Gould.
(b) Maurizio Pollini.
(c) Alfred Brendel.
(d) Josef Hofmann.

2. How old was Josef Hofmann when he gave his debut recital?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 11.
(d) 8.

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

4. Walter Gieseking played piano at what age?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 7.

5. Harold Bauer credited his piano interest to what dancer?
(a) Isadora Duncan.
(b) Sarah Earnheart.
(c) Maria Callais.
(d) Mary Whipley.

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

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

8. Prokofieff, Rachmaninoff and Horowitz emigrated after the Russian Revolution of 1917 when who took control?
(a) Lenin.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Marx.
(d) Vasputin.

9. What Russian pianist played Chopin's Polonaise for an amazed critic, George Bernard Shaw?
(a) Vassily Sapellnikoff.
(b) Alfred Grunfeld.
(c) Moriz Rosenthal.
(d) Percy Grainger.

10. What nickname did the pianist Leopold Godowsky go by?
(a) "Chopinzee."
(b) "Brahma of the Keyboard."
(c) "The Piano God."
(d) "The Little Giant."

11. Under whom did Leopold Godowsky study for three years?
(a) Alfred Grunfeld.
(b) Percy Grainger.
(c) Moriz Rosenthal.
(d) Saint-Saens.

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

13. How old was Josef Hofmann when he made his American debut?
(a) 5.
(b) 9.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

14. In what year did Josef Hofmann play 255 different works in twenty-one concerts without repeating any?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1938.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument did Harold Bauer play as a child prodigy?

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

3. At what age did Isaac Albeniz hide on a ship crossing the Atlantic to Puerto Rico and play in his French musketeer costume for passengers?

4. Who discovered Harold Bauer at twenty playing piano?

5. Where was Artur Schnabel from?

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