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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Glenn Gould when he died?
(a) 40.
(b) 30.
(c) 50.
(d) 62.

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

3. 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) Vladimir Horowitz.
(b) Claude Debussy.
(c) Arthur Rubinstein.
(d) David Tudor.

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

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

6. Where was Alfred Brendel born?
(a) France.
(b) Canada.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Austria.

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

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

9. How old was Isaac Albeniz when he debuted in 1864 Spain?
(a) 15.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

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

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

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

13. 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) Classicism.
(b) Neo-Classicism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Romanticism.

14. Ernest Hutcheson became president of what school of music?
(a) Vienna School of Music.
(b) Juilliard School of Music.
(c) Carnegie Mellon School of Music.
(d) New York University School of Music.

15. At what age did Isaac Albeniz hide on a ship crossing the Atlantic to Puerto Rico and play in his French musketeer costume for passengers?
(a) 13.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the pianist Ernest Hutcheson from?

2. What Russian composer and pianist initially developed a highly lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin?

3. What school did Isaac Albeniz attend at age 15?

4. Whose austere Russian appearance produced organized, impeccably delivered serious sonorities with musical elegance and exquisitely finished phrases?

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

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