Franz von Hoesslin

Franz Johannes Balthasar von Hößlin, also Hoesslin (31 December 1885 in Munich – 25 September 1946 near Sète) was a German conductor.

[1][2][3] The exile to Switzerland was occasioned after Hoesslin, then music director of the Breslau Opera, refused to conduct the playing of the Horst-Wessel song at a state ceremony.

Hoesslin responded by one final sold-out concert at which he pointedly conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony concluding with Schiller's "Ode to Joy".

[4] Hoesslin conducted three performances of Elektra by Richard Strauss at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Nazi-occupied Athens in late June and early July 1942.

After missing the scheduled flight and being pressed to conduct a performance of Così fan tutte at the Geneva Opera, the couple chartered a small private plane.