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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. At what age did Isaac Albebiz catch a train to a casino where he played piano for guests and gamblers?
(a) 8.
(b) 14.
(c) 6.
(d) 9.

6. 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) Claude Debussy.
(b) Alexander Scriabin.
(c) Claudio Arrau.
(d) Franz Liszt.

7. 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) Glenn Gould's.
(b) Beethoven's.
(c) Chopin's.
(d) Landowska's.

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

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

10. Who won the Leventritt competition in 1954, but his victory at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 made his name and musical competition well-known?
(a) Beethoven.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Van Cliburn.
(d) Chopin.

11. When did Arthur Rubinstein begin making musical recordings?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1926.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Josef Hofmann make his American debut?

2. In what year was Maurizio Pollini born?

3. What refers to an instrumental musical composition usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular technical skill?

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

5. When was Glenn Gould born?

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