Kurt Striegler

Kurt Emil Striegler (7 January 1886 – 4 August 1958) was a German composer and director.

Born in Dresden, the son of a chamber musician at the Saxon State Theatre, he attended the Royal Saxon Kapellknaben Institute in Dresden and was appointed Kapellmeisteraspirant at the Dresdner Hofkapelle by Ernst von Schuch in 1905.

For more than 50 years, he was committed to Dresden's musical life as a teacher, conductor, musician and composer.

Striegler was a member of the NSDAP and in 1933 succeeded Paul Büttner, director of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, and Fritz Busch, general music director of the Semperoper, both of whom had been forced out of office by the National Socialist rulers.

In 1953, the painter and graphic artist Otto Dix created the lithograph "Kurt Striegler".