About Georg Forster
Lived 1510 – 1568 (aged 57–58). Georg Forster was a German composer.
Georg Forster ( – 12 November 1568) was a German editor, composer and physician.
Forster was born in 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 Lorenz Lemlin.
Forster wrote and published , a five-part collection of songs. The first volume was published in 1539, and the final volume was published in 1556.
Forster died in Nuremberg.
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German editor, composer and physician
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Georg Forster was born in 1510 in Amberg.
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Georg Forster died on 12 November 1568 in Nuremberg.
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Georg Forster was a composer.
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