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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was the pianist Claudio Arrau from?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Chile.
(c) Canada.
(d) Spain.

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

4. What school promoted musicianship, severity, strength and solidity rather than charm and sensuality?
(a) The Russian school.
(b) The French school.
(c) The British school.
(d) The German school.

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

6. Who codified twentieth century theory of technique beyond Chopin's ideas?
(a) Claude Debussy.
(b) Vladimir Horowitz.
(c) Arthur Rubinstein.
(d) David Tudor.

7. Where was the musician Glenn Gould from?
(a) France.
(b) Canada.
(c) Germany.
(d) The United States.

8. In what year was Maurizio Pollini born?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1949.

9. What refers to an instrumental musical composition usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular technical skill?
(a) Etude.
(b) Waltz.
(c) Fugue.
(d) Sonata.

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

11. When was Artur Schnabel born?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1911.

12. Who was Anton Rubinstein's greatest pupil, according to the author?
(a) Josef Hofmann.
(b) Maurizio Pollini.
(c) Alfred Brendel.
(d) Glenn Gould.

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

14. When was Sergei Rachmaninoff born?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1873.

15. How old was Josef Hofmann when he made his American debut?
(a) 12.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Josef Hofmann make his Hamburg debut?

2. Vladimir de Pachmann dressed in a smelly, old gown he claimed was whose?

3. In what year did Glenn Gould retire?

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

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

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