August Schmid-Lindner (15 July 1870 – 21 October 1959) was a German pianist, composer and music educator working in Munich.
As a high school student in Munich he was encouraged to study music by Josef Rheinberger.
Schmid-Lindner received final lessons from Franz Liszt's student Sophie Menter.
[1] In 1900, he was offered a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, which he held until 1939.
In the context of the "Mozart-Woche des Deutschen Reiches", he was entrusted in 1941 with the musical direction of the performance of Così fan tutte in Munich, whose dance performances, under the direction of the choreographer Senta Maria Schmid [de],[2] were taken over by members of the school of Dorothee Günther [de], such as Lilo Ramdohr.