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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. Who did Isaac Albeniz audition for in Budapest?
(a) Claude Debussy.
(b) Franz Liszt.
(c) Alexander Scriabin.
(d) Claudio Arrau.

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

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

4. What term refers to any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d) Percussion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did the musician Mischa Levitzski die?

2. What contemporary pianist of Teresa Carreno called her a "goddess" despite her lack of discipline?

3. At what age did Glenn Gould begin playing piano?

4. In what year did Leopold Godowsky suffer a stroke?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Artur Schnabel and what was his expertise in music? How is Schnabel described?

3. Describe Harold Bauer's American debut. What is noted of the pianist's style?

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

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

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

7. What Polish pianists are described in Chapter XXIV, The Chopinzee, the Buddha, and Others in addition to de Pachmann and Godowsky?

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

9. What was the critical and public response to Busoni's performances?

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

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