Emma Sándor (17 March 1863 Baja – 22 November 1958  Budapest) was a Hungarian composer, folklorist, and translator.

Her father was merchant Móric Schlesinger and her mother Sarlolta Deutsch, both of Jewish descent.

She learned to play the piano and sing, and around the turn of the century, she knew the most important personalities of Budapest's musical life.

[3][4] In 1910, she married Zoltán Kodály in Budapest,  with whom she lived the rest of her life and worked with him.

She translated the texts of many ballads and folk songs into German.