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Jeanne Behrend was an American pianist, musicologist, music educator, and composer. She made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 11, and graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1934 after studying under Josef Hofmann and Rosario Scalero. Behrend won Columbia University's Joseph H. Bearns Prize in 1936. Following her 1937 Carnegie Hall debut, she championed American composers and explored musical traditions across the Western Hemisphere. Sponsored by composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, she conducted lecture and concert tours across South America from 1945-46, for which she earned Brazil's National Order of the Southern Cross. As a musicologist and archival editor, Behrend published Louis Moreau Gottschalk's autobiography, Notes of a Pianist, in 1964. She taught at several institutions, including Juilliard, Temple University, and the Curtis Institute of Music. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
