Richard Rössler, also Roessler or Rößler (14 November 1880 – 23 June 1962) was a Baltic German pianist, organist, composer and music educator (academic teacher).

In 1910, he married the pianist Dora Charlotte Mayer (1887–1951), a Württemberg pastor's daughter who had studied in Berlin with Ernst von Dohnányi and Max Bruch.

From 1897 to 1901, he studied composition with Max Bruch (1838–1920) as well as piano with Heinrich Barth (1847–1922) and Ernst Rudorff (1840–1916) at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

[8] In addition to his extensive solo activities covering a wide repertoire, Rössler also performed with renowned contemporary musicians.

His piano students later included well-known artists such as Andre Asriel, Max Baumann, Erwin Bodky,[9][10] Ludwig Hoffmann, Irma Hofmeister, Herrmann Hoppe, Jan Koetsier,[11] Ferdinand Leitner,[12] Boris Lysenko, Dr. Hans Joachim Moser, Helmut Roloff, Bertha Tideman-Wijers, Anneliese Schier-Tiessen, Siegfried Schubert-Weber, Ignaz Strasfogel, Volker Wangenheim, Kurt Weill,[13] Gerhard Wilhelm, Ernestine Wolossowa and Ingeborg Wunder.

Stylistically, he was committed to the music-aesthetic tradition of the Brahms-Joachim circle: "an excellent chamber music composer of the Brahmsian direction.