Georg Forster (composer)
German editor, composer and physician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Georg Forster (c. 1510 – 12 November 1568) was a German editor, composer and physician.[1]
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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.[1]