Bernd Riede is a German music educator, author of several textbooks and director of studies at the Friedrich-Engels-Gymnasium (Berlin) [de] in the Reinickendorf borough of Berlin.
Riede studied school music, musicology, political science, philosophy and Italian.
In 1985 he was awarded a doctorate at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on Luigi Nono in musicology.
He was a teacher and from 1992 to 2018 head of the music department at the Friedrich-Engels-Gymnasium Berlin-Reinickendorf.
His texts for music lessons, especially in the upper school, are used nationwide.