Franz Xaver Krautwurst (7 August 1923 – 30 November 2015) was a German musicologist and academic teacher .
He was educated at the University of Music and Theatre Munich from 1939 through 1942, and then was conscripted into the German military for service from 1942-1945.
He pursued further studies in musicology after World War II at the University of Munich under Rudolf von Ficker and Thrasybulos Georgiades.
He earned a doctorate in musicology from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in 1950; studying there with Rudolf Steglich.
[2] He was also a contributor to Schubert publications of the Internationales Franz-Schubert-Institut [de] in Vienna, and contributed numerous articles to the Fränkische Lebensbilder.