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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXXVI through XXXVIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Glenn Gould when he died?
(a) 30.
(b) 50.
(c) 62.
(d) 40.

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

3. 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.

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

5. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk return to the United States to give a New York concert?
(a) 1853.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1798.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did Glenn Gould retire?

2. What school did Isaac Albeniz attend at age 15?

3. What German pianist, conductor, and composer of Czech birth was a pupil of B. D. Weber in Prague and of Albrechtsberger and Salieri in Vienna?

4. When was Ignacy Jan Paderewski born?

5. What term is used to describe a form of playing that means connected consecutive notes without audible separation compared to staccato playing with distinct breaks between consecutive notes?

(see the answer key)

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