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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Prokofieff, Rachmaninoff and Horowitz emigrated after the Russian Revolution of 1917 when who took control?
(a) Marx.
(b) Lenin.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Vasputin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What school promoted musicianship, severity, strength and solidity rather than charm and sensuality?
(a) The German school.
(b) The British school.
(c) The Russian school.
(d) The French school.

13. Where was the musician Glenn Gould from?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) The United States.
(d) Canada.

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

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) 14.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did Glenn Gould retire?

2. Where was Annette Essipoff from?

3. At what age did Isaac Albebiz catch a train to a casino where he played piano for guests and gamblers?

4. What musician played like a skilled de Pachmann, according to the author?

5. When did Josef Hofmann make his American debut?

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