Bálint Sárosi (Csíkrákos, Romania, 1925) is one of the most prominent Hungarian researchers of folk music. He is a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and received the highest distinctions awarded to musicologists: the Erkel Prize and the Széchenyi Prize. His books present comprehensive surveys of whole fields, such as instrumental folk music and “Gipsy music”. His Zenei anyanyelvünk [Our Mother Tongue of Music], (1973), was published in a new edition in 2003. His Nótáskönyv [Book of Songs], (2009) is an ample collection of further communal singing.