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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who played difficult music fast and accurately but died in 1951 at the piano in Carnegie Hall?
(a) Simon Barrere.
(b) Claude Debussy.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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

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

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

7. What is the name of a performance hall in New York City where Paderewski made a debut in 1891 on his tour for the Steinway piano company?
(a) Metropolitan Opera.
(b) Carnegie Hall.
(c) Vienna Philharmonic.
(d) New York Philharmonic.

8. When did Arthur Rubinstein begin making musical recordings?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1941.

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

10. What album by Glenn Gould is described as combining personality, ideas, bouncing rhythm and fast tempos?
(a) "Goldberg Variations."
(b) "Rhapsody in Blue."
(c) "Goldberg Sonata in D Minor."
(d) "Moonlight Sonata."

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

12. Who sought ideal music he could play and compose and eventually settled on Mozart's twelve piano concertos at farewell concerts in 1922?
(a) Claude Debussy.
(b) Claudio Arrau.
(c) Ferruccio Busoni.
(d) Franz Liszt.

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

14. In what year did Glenn Gould retire?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1982.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Sergei Rachmaninoff born?

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

3. When did Josef Hofmann make his Hamburg debut?

4. At what age did the musician Mischa Levitzski die?

5. 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?

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