Francisco Kröpfl

Francisco Kröpfl (1931-2021) was an Argentine composer and music theorist, born in Timișoara, Romania, and a pioneer of electroacoustic music in Latin America. A pupil of Juan Carlos Paz, he founded the Estudio de Fonología Musical at the University of Buenos Aires in 1958, the first institutional electronic music studio on the continent. He died in Buenos Aires. Kröpfl set up the Buenos Aires studio with technical help from Fausto Maranca. From 1967 to 1971 he directed the electronic music laboratory of CLAEM at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, a centre for Latin American composers.