Paul Juon (Russian: Па́вел Фёдорович Юо́н, Pavel Fyodorovich Yuon; 6 March 1872 – 21 August 1940) was a Russian-born Swiss composer.
In 1889, he entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied violin with Jan Hřímalý[1] and composition with Anton Arensky[1] and Sergei Taneyev.
[1] His first (privately) printed works, two Romanzen (lieder) appeared in 1894, the year he began studies with Bargiel.
During his time in Berlin he was a composition professor, employed by Joseph Joachim;[1] his students included Hans Chemin-Petit, Werner Richard Heymann, Nikos Skalkottas, Henry Jolles, Pancho Vladigerov, Philipp Jarnach, Heinrich Kaminski, Lauri Ikonen, Max Trapp, Heino Kaski, Yrjö Kilpinen, Gerhart von Westerman, Hans Moltkau, Giannis Konstantinidis, Wilhelm Guttmann, Stefan Wolpe, Nicolas Nabokov and Gunnar Johansen.
Juon married his first wife, Katharina Schalchalova, in 1896; they had three children: Ina, Aja, and Ralf.