Hans Rudolf Zöbeley (27 May 1931 in Mannheim – 5 December 2007 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen) was a German composer, choral conductor and Lutheran church musician.
The son of the Baden minister and hymn composer[1] Rudolf Zöbeley (1901–1991) and Martha Bälz, he studied classical philology and medieval studies at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg and musicology at the Kirchenmusikalisches Institut Heidelberg.
In 1955 he passed the state examination in Heidelberg, 1957, the A-Prüfung as a full-time church musician.
In 1963 he completed his doctorate under Thrasyboulos Georgiades (1907–1977) in Munich with a thesis on the music of the Buxheim Organ Book.
His son is the early music specialist and choral conductor Martin Zöbeley, leader of Gruppe für Alte Musik München.