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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the pianist Ernest Hutcheson from?
(a) Germany.
(b) Canada.
(c) Australia.
(d) Russia.

2. Where was Annette Essipoff from?
(a) Russia.
(b) Italy.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

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

4. When was Glenn Gould born?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1908.

5. Where was Alfred Brendel born?
(a) Austria.
(b) Hungary.
(c) France.
(d) Canada.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Artur Schnabel from?

3. What Australian pianist hiked to concerts with a knapsack and was one of the most gifted pianists of the 20th century?

4. Under whom did Leopold Godowsky study for three years?

5. Ernest Hutcheson became president of what school of music?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Harold Bauer's American debut. What is noted of the pianist's style?

2. What relationship did Arthur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz share? How did they differ in performance styles?

3. Who were the forerunners of modernism? How did modernism differ from romanticism?

4. Who represented Schnabel's German/Austrian legacy in music? How is the German school described?

5. How does the author describe the correlation between pianists and composers in Chapter XXVI, Composers at the Keyboard?

6. How did Vladimir Horowitz's piano career begin? What was the public reaction to the pianist?

7. What female students of Liszt are described in Chapter XXV, The Ladies?

8. Who was Vladimir de Pachmann? What was his expertise and namesake?

9. Who was Isaac Albeniz? Describe his early career.

10. Compare the style and works of Busoni and Godowsky. How does the author relate their philosophical differences?

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