Muzalevsky Vladimir Ilyich (real surname: Bunimovich) (25 March 1894, Simferopol — 30 April 1964, Leningrad) — musicologist.

Honored Art Worker of the Latvian SSR (1954). Doctor of Art History (1960).

In 1917 he graduated from the Petrograd Conservatory (piano class of V. N. Drozdov). From 1917 to 1923 he taught at the Don Conservatory in Rostov-on-Don and performed as a soloist and accompanist. From 1923 he worked in Leningrad as a teacher and lecturer. In 1928–1937 he taught general piano at the Leningrad Conservatory; in 1937–1941 he lectured there on the history of Russian and foreign musical literature.

In 1941–1944 he served as head of the music department and consultant of the Directorate for Arts of the Uzbek SSR. In 1947 he moved to Riga, where from 1947 to 1957 he was professor and head of the Department of Music History at the Latvian Conservatory, and from 1948 to 1951 deputy director for academic and research affairs. From 1937 to 1960, with interruptions, he was a senior research fellow at the Leningrad Research Institute of Theatre and Music.

He was the author of numerous articles published in periodicals in Moscow, Leningrad, and Riga.

Works:

Notes of a Musician (Записки музыканта). Leningrad, 1969.