Witold Szalonek (born in 1927 in Czechowice-Dziedzice, died in 2001 in Berlin) was a Polish composer.
Following his first successes at international composers' competitions, he received a grant from Kranichsteiner Musikinstitut in Darmstadt (1960).
In the early 1970s he was invited by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst to work as artist in residence at West Berlin's Hochschule der Künste.
He has conducted numerous seminars and courses in composition in Poland, Denmark, Germany, Finland and Slovakia.
He is also the author of theoretical studies on a wide range of subjects, including combined sounds, sonorism, Chopin and Debussy.