Ingo Harden (born 26 February 1928) is a German music critic and writer.
Born in Hamburg, Harden studied musicology with Heinrich Husmann and piano with Ilse Fromm-Michaels.
In 1964 he took over the editorial office of Fono Forum [de] and headed the journal until 1976.
From 1964 he was one of the jurors, later until 2000 managing secretary of the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
After decades of work as a record critic for trade journals and daily newspapers such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Welt, Harden is still active today as an author for radio and books.