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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Isaac Albeniz when he debuted in 1864 Spain?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 4.

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

3. When did Josef Hofmann make his American debut?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1798.

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

5. What Australian pianist hiked to concerts with a knapsack and was one of the most gifted pianists of the 20th century?
(a) Percy Grainger.
(b) Vassily Sapellnikoff.
(c) Moriz Rosenthal.
(d) Alfred Grunfeld.

6. When was Sergei Rachmaninoff born?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1799.

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

8. Who was described by the author as an incomparable pianist who added new theories and ideas about pedaling and sonority with new ideas of figuration and layout?
(a) Franz Liszt.
(b) Alexander Scriabin.
(c) Claudio Arrau.
(d) Claude Debussy.

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

10. What term is used to describe the late nineteenth and twentieth century disciplined style of piano playing in which the pianist reverts back to playing with strict adherence to composers' written musical note?
(a) Modernism.
(b) Neo-Classicism.
(c) Classicism.
(d) Romanticism.

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

12. In Chapter XXXVI, Bach a la Mode, the author comments on a trend that was unfashionable to play Bach on piano since whose resurgent harpsichord playing?
(a) Chopin's.
(b) Beethoven's.
(c) Landowska's.
(d) Glenn Gould's.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What musician played like a skilled de Pachmann, according to the author?

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

3. When did Arthur Rubinstein begin making musical recordings?

4. Whose powerful opening made orchestra conductor Eugen Pabst leave the podium to watch his hands and the "audience went wild"?

5. Who was Anton Rubinstein's greatest pupil, according to the author?

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