Rudolf Baumgartner (14 September 1917 – 22 March 2002) was a Swiss conductor, violinist and music educator.
In 1956 he founded the Lucerne Festival Strings chamber orchestra together with Wolfgang Schneiderhan.
After completing these studies, he pursued further training in the violin privately with Carl Flesch in Paris and Wolfgang Schneiderhan in Vienna.
Bach with the Austrian harpsichordist Isolde Ahlgrimm for Phillips, although the masters have been lost.
In 1954 he joined the faculty of the Lucerne Conservatory as a professor of violin, and later became the director of that institution in 1960.