Fritz Zaun (19 June 1893 – 17 January 1966) was a German conductor and music educator and since the foundation of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf / Duisburg) in 1956 until his death was its General Music Director.
Together with Wilhelm Furtwängler, he shaped the musical life in Berlin.
[2] His favourite composers were Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Hans Pfitzner and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose works he repeatedly performed, especially at the Rhine Opera, for whose artistic level he was jointly responsible – together with Alberto Erede, Hermann Juch and Grischa Barfuss – in the 1960s.
His last conducting engagement was a performance of Der fliegende Holländer in Düsseldorf.
[3] Zaun's family grave is at the Melaten-Friedhof in Cologne although he died in Düsseldorf at the age of 73.