Francisco Kröpfl (26 February 1931 – 15 December 2021) was an Argentine composer and music theorist.
[1] Kröpfl was born in Timișoara, Romania into a family of Danube Swabians.
In the decade of the 1950s he was one of the pioneers of the methods of electroacoustic music in Latin America.
With the technical collaboration of Fausto Maranca, in 1958 he founded the Estudio de Fonología Musical at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, the first institutional studio of electronic music in the continent.
[4] Among his many pupils were Susana Anton, Oscar Edelstein and Marta Varela.