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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. In what year did Isaac Albeniz go to San Francisco before returning to Europe?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1905.

2. 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?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 13.
(d) 14.

3. In what year was Alfred Brendel born?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1940.

4. What contemporary pianist of Teresa Carreno called her a "goddess" despite her lack of discipline?
(a) Claudio Arrau.
(b) Percy Grainger.
(c) Alfred Grunfeld.
(d) Vassily Sapellnikoff.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Prokofieff, Rachmaninoff and Horowitz emigrated after the Russian Revolution of 1917 when who took control?

3. Where was Alfred Brendel born?

4. Where was the pianist Claudio Arrau from?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Josef Hofmann make his American debut? What toll did it take on him?

2. Who was Harold Bauer? Describe the Bauer's early career.

3. What example is given to illustrate modernist principles with Josef Hofmann?

4. What advances in piano technique are described in Chapter XXXI, New Philosophies, New Styles? Where did they originate?

5. What was the critical and public response to Busoni's performances?

6. What nickname did Leopold Godowsky earn? Why?

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

8. What American pianists does Schonberg describe in Chapter XXXVIII, Made in America?

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

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

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