Josef Waldbauer (Hungarian: Waldbauer József; also Joseph Waldbauer, József Waldbauer) (1861–1920) was an Austro-Hungarian composer, violinist and music educator. Josef Waldbauer was born in Austria in a peasant family. He moved to Budapest where he studied violin at the National Conservatory with Alois Gobbi. From 1888 to 1898 he was a violist of Hubay-Popper Quartet. At the same time he was a music teacher in different schools: in 1891/92 in the commercial boys secondary school which was located on the 35 Soroksári Way, and in 1896/97 in the boys school which was situated on the 17 Knézits Street. In 1898 he left the Quartet because he was assigned as a secretary of the Budapest Chamber Music Society. In 1910–1914 he was inspector of the violin section of the high professional music cour