Peter Jona Korn (30 March 1922 – 12 January 1998) was a German composer, music educator, conductor, pianist, harpsichord player and writer.
He was a son of the Jewish couple Georg Korn, an amateur pianist, and Elisabeth, born Heilborn, a violinist and singer.
At the age of ten he worked as a pianist and harpsichord player in the programmes of the broadcasting company "Deutsche Welle" and performed as a soprano soloist at concerts in the Berliner Philharmonie.
In 1940, he emigrated to the United States where he studied from 1941 to 1942 with Arnold Schoenberg at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA).
He completed his studies from 1946 to 1947 with Ernst Toch, Hanns Eisler and Miklós Rózsa at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Korn is author of the booklet: Musikalische Umweltverschmutzungen - Polemische Variationen über ein unerquickliches Thema.