He left his teaching position in 1950 to focus on composition, but returned in following 1954, becoming a professor in 1958 and vice chancellor in 1960, a post he would retain until 1972.
[2] Driessler is best known for his church music, including oratorios and operas, which was known in parts of western Germany but never attained international recognition.
[1] These include the oratorio Dein Reich komme, described by Werner Oehlmann as "an example of ascetic music featuring religious symbolism" ("Beispiel religiös-symbolistischer, klangasketischer Musik").
[3] His work is described by Hanspeter Krellmann in his Grove Music Online entry as traditional, tonal and contrapuntal.
[3] Wolf-Eberhard von Lewinski and Donald Mintz, in a 1965 survey of contemporary German music, describe his work with others as "moderate modernism with a Hindemithian flavor but also pregnant individual traits".