Benedikt Brilmayer (born in 1980) is a German musicologist with a focus on organology at the Berlin Musical Instrument Museum.
Born in Munich, Brilmayer studied musicology, cultural management and psychology at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar and at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
As a student he already worked for a joint research project of the University of Music Weimar and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar in the field of organology.
He was awarded a doctorate in 2015 at the University of Augsburg with the thesis Das Trautonium.
He publishes instrumental studies with a focus on electronic musical instruments and teaches at several colleges and universities, such as the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart and the Humboldt University of Berlin.