Wilfried Gruhn

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Wilfried Gruhn
Gruhn in 2018
Born (1939-10-15) 15 October 1939 (age 84)
Königsberg, Germany
Education
Occupations
  • Violinist
  • Musicologist
Organizations

Wilfried Gruhn (born 15 October 1939) is a German violinist, musicologist, music educator, and professor emeritus at universities in Germany and abroad. His focus is the music education of small children. He founded and directed the Gordon Institute of early childhood music learning in Freiburg in 2003. He is engaged in several international organisations such as International Society for Music Education (ISME) and the Internationale Leo Kestenberg Gesellschaft which published Leo Kestenberg's complete writings in six volumes.

Life

Born in

Kammerorchester des Saarländischen Rundfunks[1] and completed his pedagogy studies in 1966 with the second state examination for the teaching profession at higher schools. He received his doctorate in musicology in 1967 under the supervision of Hellmut Federhofer at the University of Mainz. He taught at a secondary school in Zweibrücken until 1974, where he also directed the Bibliotheca Bipontina.[1]

After playing as a violinist in the Mainzer Flötenquartett (Mainz Flute Quartet) and the Heidelberger Kammerorchester, as well as music pedagogical engagement in curriculum commissions and in teacher training, he took over a teaching position for music pedagogy at the

Folkwang-Hochschule, which conducted a pilot project for the development of new training courses in secondary schools I and II (Regensburg and Mainz, 1978) with the newly established course of studies in school music. 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.[1]

Gruhn held visiting professorships at the

honorary doctorate in 2019. Further teaching assignments or courses took him to the University of the Arts Bern and the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.[1][2]

Gruhn was also president of the Research Alliance of Institutes for Music Education from 1995 to 1997. 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.[2] He was chairman of the Internationale Leo Kestenberg Gesellschaft from 2009 to 2012.[2]

He is the author and editor of numerous specialist publications and essays as well as co-editor of music education journals Zeitschrift für Musikpädagogik (Journal for music pedagogy), Musik und Unterricht (Music and lessons) and European Music Journal.[2]

Scientific focus

Gruhn focused in his research on musical learning.[3] Intensive contacts with American music pedagogy since 1980 led him to study the music learning theory of Edwin Gordon. The research approaches of the cognitive sciences resulted in new empirical approaches to learning research (perception and cognition of music), which also took up the expanded possibilities of the emerging neuroscience and led to research into the neural foundations of musical learning in collaboration with medical scientists, psychologists and neurologists.[3]

With an increasing focus on early childhood music learning, he founded the Gordon-Institut für frühkindliches Musiklernen (Gordon Institute for Early Childhood Music Learning) in Freiburg in 2003, and directed it until 2009.[2] Here, Gordon's learning-theoretical foundations were to be placed on neurobiological research results and expanded in order to make them usable for music teacher training. 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.[2][5]

Publications

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Editor

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Wilfried Gruhn". MGG Online. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Wilfried Gruhn". Stretta music. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  3. ^ a b Kaiser-El-Safti, Margret. "Wilfried Gruhn: Der Musikverstand. / Neurobiologische Grundlagen des musikalischen Denkens, Hörens und Lernens". Music Journal. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  4. ISBN 978-3-936000-11-5
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  5. ^ "Publikationen / Gesamtbibliografie im Netz". Berlin.de (in German). 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
  6. ^ Anfänge des Musiklernens eine lerntheoretische und entwicklungspsychologische Einführung on WorldCat

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