Hermann Behn
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Franz Hermann Behn (born November 11, 1857 in Hamburg , † November 27, 1927 ) was a German pianist , conductor and music arranger .
Life
Behn was a son of Hermann Ludwig Behn . As an assessor, Behn married Luise Stromberger in 1883, and their son Siegfried was born in June 1884. After he passed the assessor exam in 1885, he gave up law and turned to music. First he went with his family to Munich, where daughter Eva was born in 1887, and Behn became a private student of Joseph Rheinberger , then of Anton Bruckner in Vienna and from 1887 of Hermann Zumpe in Hamburg, where his second son Walther was born. In his second marriage, Behn was married to Speranza Francesca Eugenia Caneva.
career
Hermann Behn was a conductor and pianist who has also published a number of virtuoso piano reductions of Wagner operas and other works from the well-known symphonic repertoire , which are still widely used today, including an arrangement of Gustav Mahler's Resurrection Symphony .
In Hamburg he edited 9 books of songs and chants and a piano sonata in C minor and arranged parts of Wagner's music dramas for 2 pianoforte for 4 hands, as well as Bruckner's 7th and Mahler's 2nd symphonies, 3 preludes by Schillings and 12 classical overtures (3 Mozarts, 6 Beethovens, 3 Webers).
Behn has been giving public lectures on music history in Hamburg on behalf of the high school authorities since 1897 and received the title of professor from the Hamburg Senate in 1917.
literature
- Helmut Brenner , Reinhold Kubik: Mahler's people. Friends and companions . Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten 2014, pp. 30–35, ISBN 978-3-7017-3322-4 .
- Hugo Riemann (first), Wolfgang Ruf (ed.): Riemann Musiklexikon, vol. 1 . Schott, Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-79570006-5 ( EA Mainz 1929 )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Behn, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Behn, Franz Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, conductor and piano virtuoso |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1927 |