Georg Forster (composer)
Georg Forster (c. 1510 – 12 November 1568) was a German editor, composer and physician.
Forster was born at Amberg, in the Upper Palatinate. While a chorister at Elector Ludwig V’s court in Heidelberg around 1521, he was a colleague of Caspar Othmayr who would also become a composer of renown. Forster received his first instruction in composition from the Kapellmeister Lorenz Lemlin. Forster died at Nuremberg.
External links[]
- Free scores by Georg Forster in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- Free scores by Georg Forster at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Categories:
- 1510s births
- 1568 deaths
- Renaissance composers
- German classical composers
- German male classical composers
- German composer stubs