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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Harold Bauer make his American debut?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1885.

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

3. What Russian composer and pianist initially developed a highly lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin?
(a) Franz Liszt.
(b) Claude Debussy.
(c) Claudio Arrau.
(d) Alexander Scriabin.

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

5. What nickname did the pianist Vladimir de Pachmann acquire?
(a) "The Little Giant."
(b) "The Maestro."
(c) "Chopinzee."
(d) "Brahma of the Keyboard."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Annette Essipoff from?

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

3. When did Arthur Rubinstein begin making musical recordings?

4. Where was Alfred Brendel born?

5. Who was Anton Rubinstein's greatest pupil, according to the author?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the correlation between pianists and composers in Chapter XXVI, Composers at the Keyboard?

2. What was the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on music?

3. How is the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff described by the author? Where was Sergei Rachmaninoff from?

4. What relationship did Arthur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz share? How did they differ in performance styles?

5. What American pianists does Schonberg describe in Chapter XXXVIII, Made in America?

6. What example is given to illustrate modernist principles with Josef Hofmann?

7. What advances in piano technique are described in Chapter XXXI, New Philosophies, New Styles? Where did they originate?

8. Who was Harold Bauer? Describe the Bauer's early career.

9. Compare the style and works of Busoni and Godowsky. How does the author relate their philosophical differences?

10. Who represented Schnabel's German/Austrian legacy in music? How is the German school described?

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