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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Russian pianist played Chopin's Polonaise for an amazed critic, George Bernard Shaw?
(a) Moriz Rosenthal.
(b) Percy Grainger.
(c) Vassily Sapellnikoff.
(d) Alfred Grunfeld.

2. In what year was Alfred Brendel born?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1955.

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

4. What Australian pianist hiked to concerts with a knapsack and was one of the most gifted pianists of the 20th century?
(a) Alfred Grunfeld.
(b) Vassily Sapellnikoff.
(c) Moriz Rosenthal.
(d) Percy Grainger.

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

6. Where was Josef Hofmann born?
(a) Poland.
(b) The United States.
(c) Austria.
(d) Great Britain.

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

8. In what year did Josef Hofmann play 255 different works in twenty-one concerts without repeating any?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1919.

9. Who discovered Harold Bauer at twenty playing piano?
(a) Josef Lhevinne.
(b) Johannes Sebastian Bach.
(c) Sergei Rachmaninoff.
(d) Paderewski.

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

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

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

13. Where was Rudolf Serkin sent to study at the age of nine?
(a) Vienna.
(b) Paris.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Oslo.

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

15. Where was Artur Schnabel from?
(a) Austria.
(b) Hungary.
(c) Poland.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Josef Hofmann when he made his American debut?

2. What contemporary pianist of Teresa Carreno called her a "goddess" despite her lack of discipline?

3. Where was the pianist Ernest Hutcheson from?

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

5. 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?

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