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

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

3. How old was Josef Hofmann when he made his American debut?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

4. Who was Anton Rubinstein's greatest pupil, according to the author?
(a) Glenn Gould.
(b) Josef Hofmann.
(c) Alfred Brendel.
(d) Maurizio Pollini.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Isaac Albeniz when he debuted in 1864 Spain?

2. Who codified twentieth century theory of technique beyond Chopin's ideas?

3. In what year was Harold Bauer born?

4. Whose powerful opening made orchestra conductor Eugen Pabst leave the podium to watch his hands and the "audience went wild"?

5. What refers to an instrumental musical composition usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular technical skill?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Vladimir Horowitz's piano career begin? What was the public reaction to the pianist?

2. When did Glenn Gould retire? What emotional disturbances did he suffer from?

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

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

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

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

7. What female students of Liszt are described in Chapter XXV, The Ladies?

8. When did Josef Hofmann make his American debut? What toll did it take on him?

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

10. What nickname did Leopold Godowsky earn? Why?

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