Kurt Overhoff (20 October 1902, in Vienna – 16 November 1986, in Salzburg) was an Austrian conductor and composer. Largely self-taught in music and conducting, he started at the Vienna State Opera as an assistant to its director Franz Schalk and the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. In 1929 he became music director of the city of Koblenz, then in 1932 general music director in Heidelberg, where he remained until 1940. He was the tutor of Wieland Wagner from 1940 to 1950, concerning the musical structure and dramatic themes of Richard Wagner's operas. A product of their work together is Overhoff's Die Musikdramen Richard Wagners: Eine thematisch-musikalische Interpretation, published after Wieland Wagner's death. In 1943 he was appointed general music director of the Landestheater Altenburg, w