13 Facts About Wilfried Gruhn

Wilfried Gruhn was born on 15 October 1939 and is a German music educator, musicologist, violinist, and professor emeritus at universities in Germany and abroad.

Wilfried Gruhn's focus is the music education of small children.

Wilfried Gruhn founded and directed the Gordon Institute of early childhood music learning in Freiburg in 2003.

Wilfried Gruhn is engaged in several international organisations such as International Society for Music Education and the Internationale Leo Kestenberg Gesellschaft which published Leo Kestenberg's complete writings in six volumes.

Wilfried Gruhn studied school music and violin as well as musicology with Arnold Schmitz, German studies with Paul Requadt and psychology with Albert Wellek at the University of Mainz.

Wilfried Gruhn studied as a postgraduate in the Ludwig Bus master class in Saarbrucken.

Wilfried Gruhn received his doctorate in musicology in 1967 under the supervision of Hellmut Federhofer at the University of Mainz.

Wilfried Gruhn taught at a secondary school in Zweibrucken until 1974, where he directed the Bibliotheca Bipontina.

Wilfried Gruhn held visiting professorships at the Eastman School of Music, the Universiti Teknologi MARA, the International University of Andalucia in Seville and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2019.

Wilfried Gruhn was president of the Research Alliance of Institutes for Music Education from 1995 to 1997.

Wilfried Gruhn represented Germany in the International Society for Music Education since 1994, and was a member of its board of directors from 2000 to 2004.

Wilfried Gruhn was chairman of the Internationale Leo Kestenberg Gesellschaft from 2009 to 2012.

Wilfried Gruhn is the author and editor of numerous specialist publications and essays as well as co-editor of music education journals Zeitschrift fur Musikpadagogik, Musik und Unterricht and European Music Journal.