Georg Forster ( – 12 November 1568) was a German editor, composer and physician. Forster was born in

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, in the

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. While a chorister at Elector Ludwig V's court in

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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

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* * 1510s births 1568 deaths Year of birth uncertain German Renaissance composers German male classical composers {{Germany-composer-stub