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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Wilhelm Backhaus when he made his first concert tour?
(a) 16.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 18.

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

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

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

5. Under whom did Leopold Godowsky study for three years?
(a) Saint-Saens.
(b) Percy Grainger.
(c) Alfred Grunfeld.
(d) Moriz Rosenthal.

6. Whose powerful opening made orchestra conductor Eugen Pabst leave the podium to watch his hands and the "audience went wild"?
(a) Arthur Rubinstein.
(b) Claude Debussy.
(c) Vladimir Horowitz.
(d) David Tudor.

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

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

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

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

11. Who was world exponent of ultra-avant-garde pianism because he could read the new printed notes that required playing simultaneously piano keyboard, sounding board and strings, tape recorder and kazoo?
(a) Claude Debussy.
(b) David Tudor.
(c) Vladimir Horowitz.
(d) Arthur Rubinstein.

12. Where was the pianist Ernest Hutcheson from?
(a) Australia.
(b) Canada.
(c) Russia.
(d) Germany.

13. Where was Annette Essipoff from?
(a) Germany.
(b) Italy.
(c) Russia.
(d) France.

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

15. 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) Beethoven.
(c) Van Cliburn.
(d) Mozart.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Arthur Rubinstein begin making musical recordings?

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

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

4. In what year did Leopold Godowsky suffer a stroke?

5. When was Glenn Gould born?

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