Kurt Overhoff

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Kurt Overhoff (20 October 1902 Vienna, † 16 November 1986 Salzburg) was an Austrian conductor and composer.

He started as the assistant of Wilhelm Furtwängler and then became the musical director in Heidelberg (1932-40). He was heavily involved with the Richard Wagner family and so founded the Bayreuth Symphony Orchestra. He also taught in the USA, before he became porofessor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.