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

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

4. What refers to an instrumental musical composition usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular technical skill?
(a) Etude.
(b) Fugue.
(c) Waltz.
(d) Sonata.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. In what year was Harold Bauer born?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1858.
(d) 1798.

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

13. 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?
(a) Claudio Arrau.
(b) Franz Liszt.
(c) Alexander Scriabin.
(d) Claude Debussy.

14. What term is used to describe the late nineteenth and twentieth century disciplined style of piano playing in which the pianist reverts back to playing with strict adherence to composers' written musical note?
(a) Neo-Classicism.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Classicism.
(d) Romanticism.

15. When was Glenn Gould born?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1932.