Jeanne Behrend

Jeanne Behrend (11 May 1911 – 20 March 1988) was an American pianist, music educator, musicologist and composer.

Jeanne Behrend was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Curtis Institute in 1934, where she studied piano with Josef Hofmann and composition with Rosario Scalero.

[4] Behrend edited a selection of Louis Moreau Gottschalk piano scores and his autobiography, Notes of a Pianist.

She also edited a collection of Stephen Foster songs and one of American fuguing tunes.

She founded and directed the Philadelphia Festival of Western Hemisphere Music in 1959 and 1960 and was awarded the Order of the Southern Cross from Brazil.