Francisco Kröpfl (26 February 1931 – 15 December 2021) was an Argentinian composer and music theorist. Kröpfl was born in Timișoara, Romania into a family of Danube Swabians. He studied with Juan Carlos Paz. In 1977 he received a Guggenheim fellowship for music composition. He received the Konex Award in 2009. Among his many pupils were Susana Anton, Oscar Edelstein and Marta Varela. He died in Buenos Aires on 15 December 2021, at the age of 90.