Josef Reiter (composer)

He served as the director of the Mozarteum in Salzburg from 1908 to 1911, and was the Kapellmeister at the Hofburgtheater in Vienna from 1917 to 1918.

Reiter composed a number of operas in a neo-Wagnerian style, though none achieved any lasting success.

Der Bundschuh (1897) was conducted by Mahler at the Hofoper in Vienna in 1901 and withdrawn after five performances.

In 1904 Reiter submitted his next opera, Der Totentanz, for performance in Vienna, but it was rejected by Mahler.

Reiter became a staunch supporter of the Nazis during the 1920s, and in 1931 dedicated his Goethe Symphony to Hitler.