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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 13.
(d) 14.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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) Franz Liszt.
(b) Claude Debussy.
(c) Ferruccio Busoni.
(d) Leopold Godowsky.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who discovered Harold Bauer at twenty playing piano?

3. 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?

4. What album by Glenn Gould is described as combining personality, ideas, bouncing rhythm and fast tempos?

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

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