Count Emmerich "Imre" Széchényi of Sárvár-Felsővidék (15 February 1825 – 11 March 1898), was a Hungarian nobleman and landowner, and Austro-Hungarian diplomat and politician.

Under Foreign Minister Gyula Andrássy, he was again called to the diplomatic service of the dual monarchy, which had been reconstituted by the Compromise in 1867, and in 1878 was appointed Imperial and Royal Ambassador to the German Empire.

[9] In his private life, Széchényi was also a cultivated amateur composer of Lieder and dance music, a friend of Franz Liszt, Johann Strauss II, Émile Waldteufel etc.

A collection of Széchényi's songs by Katharina Ruckgaber (soprano), Jochen Kupfer (baritone), Peter Thalheimer [de] (csakan), and Helmut Deutsch (piano) was released on Audimax in 2017.

[2] In 1865, he married Maria Alexandra von Sztáray-Szirmay (1843–1914), a daughter of Ferdinánd Sztáray de Sztára et Nagymihály and Matilda Klobusiczky.