Josef Friedrich Doppelbauer (5 August 1918 – 16 January 1989) was an Austrian composer, organist and choral conductor.

He was professor of organ and composition, especially of church music, at the Salzburg Mozarteum from 1960 to 1988, serving as deputy rector from 1971 to 1984.

[1] He was encouraged in musical matters above all by his brother Rupert, who at this time was taught by the Johann Nepomuk David, then director of the Wels Bach Choir.

[2] After his Abitur, he studied at the Graz Conservatory from 1938, composition with Karl Marx and Walter Kolneder, organ with Franz Illenberger, and cello with Wolfgang Grunsky.

He passed the artistic maturity examination (Künstlerische Reifeprüfung) in composition with distinction only one year later.