Károly Horváth (26 October 1950 – 4 November 2015) was a Romanian-born composer and musician.

From 1975 he worked in Hungarian-language TV for a Bucharest television station.

[vague] He founded Transylvania's first folk music bands, "Concord" and "Táltos".

Until 1992 he toured Western Europe, North and South America, and Australia with the Mákvirág folk-együtteshez ("Poppy Folk Ensemble").

From 1992, he was primarily involved in musical theatre as a composer and musician, in Hungary, Transylvania and Vojvodina.