Franz Bauer Theussl (25. September 1928 in Zillingdorf - 30th April 2010 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian conductor .

Franz Bauer Theussl [toy' sul] studied piano at the Music Academy of Vienna and after graduating was the last student of Clemens Krauss . He debuted on March 4, 1957, the Vienna Volksoper with Lehár's Land of Smiles and was in his first season musical director of Die Fledermaus , Martha (Bauer Theussl's first premiere on 28 September 1957), Wiener Blut , Rigoletto , The Gypsy Baron , A waltz dream and the beggar student . During the next three decades, he conducted 26 premieres at the Volksoper. Overall, he has conducted more than 3,000 ideas there. His career has taken him as city Kapellmeister at the City Theatre in Baden (1950), as head of opera to the Landestheater in Salzburg (1953-1957), at the Volksoper in Vienna , and from 1960 to 1964 as music director at the Amsterdam Opera. As co-founder of the Mörbisch Lake Festival he was the first conductor. Even with the Bregenz Festival he directed numerous performances with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra . As part of a concert to celebrate the 100th birthday of Franz Lehár with the Bruckner Orchestra in Bad Ischl in April 1970, he discovered his affection for the Salzkammergut and settled in Unterach down. A wider audience, he was by the regular piano accompaniment Heinz Conrads known '. Bauer Theussl was married to a ballet dancer Herta Lonsky and is the father of actress Johanna Lonsky (* 1958). He died of Lehár's birthday on 30 April 2010 in Salzburg.

 VIDEO: The late Austrian conductor Franz Bauer-Theussl (1928-2010) leads the Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper in this recording, which I believe dates to the early 1970s, of Carl Maria von Weber's "Invitation to the Dance," Op. 65, as orchestrated by Hector Berlioz. I created this video from the cassette that you see above (shown near the conclusion), issued sometime in the mid-1970s by Philips as a demonstration recording of their various digital offerings.