Wilhelm Ehmann (5 December 1904 – 16 April 1989) was a German musicologist, editor, church musician and conductor.
After working as an elementary school teacher for a short time,[2] he studied musicology at the universities of Freiburg and Leipzig, with Wilibald Gurlitt, among others.
He also worked for the department of organ music at the Reichsjugendführung[2] From 1940 to 1945, he was the head of the institute of musicology at the University of Innsbruck.
[1] Ehmann focused on performing choral sacred music and pursued historically informed performance early, recording works by Dieterich Buxtehude, Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach, among others.
In 1957 he founded the first record label focused on sacred music, Cantate, together with Carl Merseburger.