Aladár Tóth (4 February 1898 – 28 October 1968) was a Hungarian musicologist and opera manager, regarded as a leading music critic in Hungary between the world wars, writing for Nyugat, among others.
Tóth worked as a music critic for the journal Új nemzedék from 1920 to 1923 and Pesti napló until 1939.
He played a role in the reception of Béla Bartók's music; in a yearly commentary in Nyugat about the concert season, he regularly emphasized Bartók's importance for Hungarian culture and criticized the lack of performances by major music institutions.
[2] During World War II, Tóth's family went to exile in Sweden[2]: 188 and then lived in Switzerland.
[3] They returned to Budapest after the war,[3] and Tóth served as director of the Hungarian State Opera from 1946 to 1956.