Georg Forster (composer)
Georg Forster (ca. 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. He 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
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