Francisco Kröpfl (26 February 1931 – 15 December 2021) was an Argentine composer and music theorist. Kröpfl was born in

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, Romania into a family of

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. He studied with

Juan Carlos Paz Juan Carlos Paz (5 August 1897 – 26 August 1972) was an Argentine composer and music theorist. Paz was born in Buenos Aires, where he studied piano with Roberto Nery and composition with Constantino Gaito and Eduardo Fornarini. He also studi ...

. 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

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, the first institutional studio of electronic music in the continent. He was the director of the Laboratorio de Música Electrónica del Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) of the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella between 1967 and 1971. In 1977 he received a

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for music

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. He received the

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in 2009. Among his many pupils were Susana Anton, Oscar Edelstein and Marta Varela. He died in

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on 15 December 2021, at the age of 90.

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