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Eduard Behm (1862-1946)

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Eduard Behm was a German pianist and composer.
His German wikipedia entry in translation (with some minor edits/additions):

The son of a pysician in Stettin, he attended the Stettin Stadtgymnasium and graduated with his "Abitur". In Stettin, he received his first piano lessons from Karl Adolf Lorenz and Robert Seidel before becoming a student of Carl Reinecke and Oscar Paul at the Leipzig Conservatoire. After transferring to the Berlin University of the Arts to study with Oskar Raif and Friedrich Kiel, Behm took lessons from Johannes Brahms in Vienna for several months. After spending two years in his hometown of Stettin (as a reviewer and conductor) and in Erfurt (as a teacher at the Akademie der Tonkunst), Behm was director of the Schwantzerschersches Konservatorium in Berlin until 1901, later also working as a teacher and accompanist. In 1917, he was appointed Royal professor.
Behm, whose works were stylistically close to German Romanticism, received the Mendelssohn Prize for his symphony (in d) and the Bösendorfer Prize for his piano concerto. He also wrote three violin sonatas, a violin concerto, a piano trio, a clarinet quintet and a string sextet (with the Violotta designed by Alfred Stelzner), several songs and pieces for male choir, as well as the operas "Der Schelm von Bergen" (1899), "Marienkind" (1902) and "Das Gelöbnis" (1914). He also wrote the essays "Aus meinem Leben" (From My Life) (in: Deutsche Tonkünstlerzeitung IX) and "Kurze Selbstbiographie" (Short Autobiography) (in: Musik in Pommern I, 1932).
Brehm died in the composers' home of the Versorgungsstiftung der deutschen Komponisten (German Composers' Welfare Foundation) in Bad Harzburg.