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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) 1900.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1910.
2. Under whom did Leopold Godowsky study for three years?
(a) Percy Grainger.
(b) Saint-Saens.
(c) Moriz Rosenthal.
(d) Alfred Grunfeld.
3. What term refers to an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in the fine arts, at singing or playing a musical instrument?
(a) Mentor.
(b) Virtuoso.
(c) Maestro.
(d) Master.
4. In what year was Maurizio Pollini born?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1942.
5. When did Arthur Rubinstein begin making musical recordings?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1933.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was the musician Glenn Gould from?
2. What is the name of a performance hall in New York City where Paderewski made a debut in 1891 on his tour for the Steinway piano company?
3. What refers to an instrumental musical composition usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular technical skill?
4. How old was Wilhelm Backhaus when he made his first concert tour?
5. Where was the pianist Claudio Arrau from?
Short Essay Questions
1. When did Josef Hofmann make his American debut? What toll did it take on him?
2. Who represented Schnabel's German/Austrian legacy in music? How is the German school described?
3. Who was Isaac Albeniz? Describe his early career.
4. When did Glenn Gould retire? What emotional disturbances did he suffer from?
5. What was the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on music?
6. How does the author describe the correlation between pianists and composers in Chapter XXVI, Composers at the Keyboard?
7. What Polish pianists are described in Chapter XXIV, The Chopinzee, the Buddha, and Others in addition to de Pachmann and Godowsky?
8. What nickname did Leopold Godowsky earn? Why?
9. Who was Vladimir de Pachmann? What was his expertise and namesake?
10. Who were the forerunners of modernism? How did modernism differ from romanticism?
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