Paul Becker (born June 13, 1960) is a Dutch-Swedish composer and a trained musicologist.
 

Becker was born in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in 1960. The Becker family is of Dutch and German heritage traceable to the 17th century to a couple of small villages in Lower Saxony near the city of Bremen.

Becker studied piano in Eindhoven with Leo Veeneman from 1975 to 1978. His musicology studies continued at the University of Utrecht (1978-1983). Here his teachers included Marius Flothuis, Kees Vellekoop, Jos Kunst, and Willem Elders. Under the direction of Marius Flothuis, Becker graduated in June 1983 with a paper (Master of Arts) on the Fourth Symphony by Jean Sibelius.

Becker emigrated to Sweden in August 1983. In 1984, Becker became engaged to Anette Marie Lundell (Stockholm, 1961) whom he had met at the University of Stuttgart in the summer of 1981. The couple married in Stockholm in 1985. Becker is a dual Dutch and Swedish citizen. He has held Dutch citizenship since birth and Swedish citizenship since becoming naturalized in 2015.

Becker was enamored by poetry from a young age. He has a special interest in the poetry of Dutch poet J. C. Bloem, the German Romantic poets Eichendorff and Heine, as well as American poets Sara Teasdale and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

As of September 2017, Becker serves as Artistic Director of a chamber music series (soirées musicales) and offers pre-concert talks to each chamber music event.
Over the past three decades, Becker has studied the music of the Czech composer Leoš Janáček (1854-1928). He has given lectures on Janáček at the Cultural Centre of the Czech Embassy in Stockholm as well as at Malmö Opera House for the 2011 production of Jenůfa (Její pastorkyňa, 1904) for which Becker also provided programme notes. He has also written booklet notes for a recording of works by Mozart and Dvořák.