Hansjörg Pauli (born 3 March 1931 in Winterthur, Switzerland) is a Swiss musicologist, writer, and music critic. He was a pupil of Hans Keller.
During the 1950s, Pauli was a jazz pianist and a music critic for Neues Winterthurer Tageblatt.
From 1960 to 1965 Pauli worked at Radio Zürich on new music broadcasts,[1] and between 1965 and 1968 he was a music editor for NDR-Fernsehen[2] where he directed TV documentaries and produced films by Richard Leacock, Rolf Liebermann, Klaus Wildenhahn[2] and others. Since 1968 he is a freelance writer.
Pauli is a prominent authority on the music of Luigi Nono.