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

In 1977, he moved to the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg as head of the course of studies in school music, where he worked until his retirement in 2003.

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

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A parallel strand of research was devoted to historical research on the history of music education;[4] he founded in 2009 the Internationale Leo Kestenberg Gesellschaft, which published the complete writings of Leo Kestenberg, a music education in Prussia, in six volumes, from 2009 to 2013.