Felipe Boero (1884-1958) was an Argentine composer and teacher, best remembered as one of the founders of a national operatic tradition in Argentina. Born in Buenos Aires, he studied locally before continuing his musical training in Paris.

Boero wrote operas, orchestral music, choral works and songs. His best-known opera, El Matrero, draws on Argentine rural life and gaucho culture, reflecting a wider movement to build art music from national subjects and idioms.

His style combines European training with Argentine colour, using melody, rhythm and dramatic subject matter to give local material a formal stage voice. He was not a radical modernist, but he had a clear sense of cultural purpose.

Boero’s importance lies in helping Argentine music claim its own operatic and theatrical space. His work belongs to a generation that treated national identity not as decoration, but as the substance of the drama.