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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With whom did Arthur Rubinstein share an uneasy friendship but recognized each other's strengths?
(a) Arthur Rubinstein.
(b) Claude Debussy.
(c) David Tudor.
(d) Vladimir Horowitz.

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

4. Whose austere Russian appearance produced organized, impeccably delivered serious sonorities with musical elegance and exquisitely finished phrases?
(a) Paderewski's.
(b) Isadora Duncan's.
(c) Josef Lhevinne's.
(d) Sergei Rachmaninoff's.

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

6. What school did Isaac Albeniz attend at age 15?
(a) Julliard School of Music.
(b) Vienna Conservatory.
(c) Brussels Conservatory.
(d) Metropolitan Opera.

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

8. How old was Isaac Albeniz when his father allowed him to go to New York?
(a) 13.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 17.

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

10. Who played difficult music fast and accurately but died in 1951 at the piano in Carnegie Hall?
(a) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
(b) Franz Liszt.
(c) Simon Barrere.
(d) Claude Debussy.

11. At what age did the musician Mischa Levitzski die?
(a) 35.
(b) 62.
(c) 50.
(d) 45.

12. What Russian composer and pianist initially developed a highly lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin?
(a) Claude Debussy.
(b) Franz Liszt.
(c) Alexander Scriabin.
(d) Claudio Arrau.

13. What Polish American pianist, composer, and teacher was known for his theories concerning the application of relaxed weight and economy of motion in piano playing?
(a) Leopold Godowsky.
(b) Ferruccio Busoni.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Claude Debussy.

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

15. 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?
(a)
(b)
(c) Percussion.
(d)

Short Answer Questions

1. What musical school did Anton Rubinstein found?

2. When was Artur Schnabel born?

3. How old was Isaac Albeniz when he debuted in 1864 Spain?

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

5. At what age did Glenn Gould retire?

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