Franz Mathias Wasner (December 28, 1905 – June 21, 1992) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest, the director and conductor of the Trapp Family Singers, and a missionary.

After graduating from the University of Innsbruck, he was ordained a priest and served in the small rural community of Mayrhofen in Tyrol for one year.

[1] He also composed several Masses and more than 60 songs to texts by various poets such as Ingeborg Bachmann, Christian Morgenstern, and Georg Trakl.

[2] During his stay, he commissioned murals in the small church of his station in Naiserelangi by the French artist Jean Charlot.

The Vatican appointed him in 1967 rector of the Pontifical Institute Santa Maria dell' Anima in Rome, which he headed until 1981.