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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. At what age did Glenn Gould retire?
(a) 25.
(b) 40.
(c) 32.
(d) 39.

4. What Polish American pianist, composer, and teacher was known for his theories concerning the application of relaxed weight and economy of motion in piano playing?
(a) Leopold Godowsky.
(b) Ferruccio Busoni.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Claude Debussy.

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

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

7. When did Josef Hofmann make his Hamburg debut?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1894.

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

9. What nickname did the pianist Leopold Godowsky go by?
(a) "Chopinzee."
(b) "The Piano God."
(c) "Brahma of the Keyboard."
(d) "The Little Giant."

10. When did Josef Hofmann make his American debut?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1887.

11. In what year did Leopold Godowsky suffer a stroke?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1878.

12. What musician debuted in 1906 America and amazed other pianists with his "quasi-glissando" that seemed impossible?
(a) Mischa Levitzski.
(b) Josef Lhevinne.
(c) Claude Debussy.
(d) Simon Barrere.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Annette Essipoff from?

2. When was Glenn Gould born?

3. When did pianist Arthur Rubinstein make his American debut?

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

5. In what year did Isaac Albeniz go to San Francisco before returning to Europe?

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