Karl Maria Zwißler

Karl Maria Zwißler (12 August 1900 – 15 September 1984) was a German conductor, and academic. He was for decades the Generalmusikdirektor and Intendant of the Staatstheater Mainz. He taught conducting at the music universities of Stuttgart and Frankfurt.

Career Born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Zwißler studied at the music universities of Heidelberg and Munich from 1920 to 1924, and the following year at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. From 1924 he was Kapellmeister at the Bavarian State Opera. Three years later he went as conductor to the Deutsche Oper (German Opera) in Brno,