Alfred Koerppen (16 December 1926 – 5 July 2022) was a German organist, music pedagogue, composer and academic teacher.

[1][2] He studied at the same time as Heinz Hennig, Paul Kuhn, Clytus Gottwald and Siegfried Strohbach.

[3] After World War II, Koerppen initially worked as an organist and music teacher at the Musisches Gymnasium.

[3] Koerppen's opera Virgilius, der Magier von Rom to a libretto by the composer after Virgil was premiered in Frankfurt in 1951, and published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1953.

[2] In 1967, he was appointed professor of composition and music theory at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover.

[3][6] Together, they founded in 2002 the Alfred Koerppen Stiftung, a foundation towards the creation, publication and performance of new classical music.