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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) 13.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 15.

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

11. When did pianist Arthur Rubinstein make his American debut?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1798.

12. 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) Chopin.
(b) Van Cliburn.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Beethoven.

13. What instrument did Harold Bauer play as a child prodigy?
(a) Violin.
(b) Harpsichord.
(c) Saxophone.
(d) Organ.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sought ideal music he could play and compose and eventually settled on Mozart's twelve piano concertos at farewell concerts in 1922?

2. At what age did Glenn Gould retire?

3. When was Sergei Rachmaninoff born?

4. When was Glenn Gould born?

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

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