Arthur Kusterer

Arthur Kusterer (14 June 1898 – 23 December 1967) was a German composer and conductor.

His best-known work is his opera adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

He worked from 1917 until 1919 as a pianist and répétiteur at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

Until 1936, he lived as a freelance composer in his home town and had success on "many German stages" with stage works in the Spieloper genre, such as Was ihr wollt and Diener zweier Herren.

[1] On 16 August 1945, at the reopening of the Friedenau Theatre in Rheinstraße in Berlin, Kusterer conducted Rossini's The Barber of Seville.