Josef Schmid (composer)
 Josef Schmid (born Germany 1890 - died New York City 1969) was a conductor composer and composition teacher. He was one of the first students of Alban Berg with whom he studied before World War I. As a conductor Schmid had been an assistant to both Zemlinsky and Erich Kleiber. As a composer Schmid was associated with Berg and Webern but considered himself a musical godson of Schoenberg.