Generalmusikdirektoren (Music Directors)
- Ignatz Waghalter (1912–1923)
- Bruno Walter (1925–1929)
- Kurt Adler, resident conductor (1932–1933)
- Artur Rother (1935–1943, 1953–1958)
- Karl Dammer (1937–1943)
- Ferenc Fricsay (1949–1952)
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- Richard Kraus (1954–1961)
- Heinrich Hollreiser, chief conductor (1961–1964)
- Lorin Maazel (1965–1971)
- Gerd Albrecht, resident conductor (1972–74)
- Jesús López-Cobos (1981–1990)
- Giuseppe Sinopoli (1990)
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- Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (1992–1997)
- Christian Thielemann (1997–2004)
- Renato Palumbo (2006–2008)
- Donald Runnicles (2009–present)
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