Richard Oesterreicher (10 November 1932 – 17 January 2023) was an Austrian conductor and jazz musician.

[1] Born in Vienna on 10 November 1932, Oesterreicher was the son of a music teacher.

He took an apprenticeship as a typesetter in 1947 before studying piano and guitar at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

He conducted contributions for Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest from 1978 to 1987, and from 1990 to 1991.

In 1981, he founded the Richard Oesterreicher-Big-Band, in which he collaborated in television shows and record productions with artists such as Udo Jürgens, Peter Alexander, Bill Ramsey, Caterina Valente, José Carreras, Edita Gruberová, and Marianne Mendt.