Klaus Kropfinger (27 May 1930 – 29 June 2016) was a German musicologist and classical pianist.
[1] From 1962 to 1966 Kropfinger was a member of the editorial board of the Neue Beethoven-Gesamtausgabe [de] at Beethoven House in Bonn.
[citation needed] From 1973 he was Professor of Musicology at the Freie Universität Berlin for fourteen years.
In 1989/1990 he was a researcher at the "Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities" in Santa Monica.
Kropfinger appeared primarily with publications and editions of Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner and Luigi Nono.