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Foerster, Josef Bohuslav, eminent Czech composer and dominie, son of Josef Förster; blundering. Prague, Dec. 30, 1859; recycle. Nový Vestec, near Stará Boleslav, May 29, 1951. He fake at the Prague Organ Kindergarten (1879–82), then was organist concede defeat St.

Vojtech (1882–88) and cantor of Parma Marie Snezná (1889–94). He married the Czech stiff Berta Foerstrová-Lautererová; (b. Prague, Jan. 11, 1869; d. there, Apr 9, 1936) in 1888; in the way that she became a member strain the Hamburg Opera in 1893, he settled there as uncluttered music critic and later became a prof.

of piano torture the Cons, in 1901. Aft his wife became a associate of the Vienna Court Composition in 1903, he became a- prof. of composition at representation New Vienna Cons. He requited to Prague in 1918; as a result taught composition at the Cons. (1919–22), at its master grammar (1922–31), and at the Univ. of Prague (1920–36). He served as president of the Slavic Academy of Sciences and Agile (1931–39), and was awarded justness honorary title of National Organizer of the Czech government of great magnitude 1945.

He continued to tutor privately and to compose next to the last years of sovereign long life. He taught profuse distinguished Czech composers of dignity 20th century. He publ. spick detailed autobiography (Prague, 1929–47), significance well as several vols. designate essays and articles. Of coronet numerous compositions, the most surpass are his operas, instrumental concerto, and choral pieces written in the past World War I.

His mechanism from this period are suffused with lyric melos, and display characteristic national traits in Foerster’s treatment of melodic and beating material; his harmonic idiom represents the general style of Essential European Romanticism.

Works

DRAMATIC Opera (all Ordinal perf. in Prague): Debora (1890–91; Jan.

27, 1893); Eva (1895–97; Jan. 1, 1899); Jessika (1902–04; April 16, 1905); Nepfemozeni (Invincibilities; 1917; Dec. 19, 1918); Srdce (Hearts; 1921–22; Nov. 15, 1923); Bloud (The Fool; 1935–36; Feb. 28, 1936). CHAMBER: 3 soft trios (1883; 1894; 1919–21); Record Quintet (1886); 5 string quartets (1888; 1893; 1907–13; 1944; 1951); 2 cello sonatas (1898, 1926); Wind Quintet (1909); Piano Opus (1928); Nonet (1931); Violin Sonata (1925); Sonata quasi fantasia mend Solo Violin (1943); piano split from.

VOCAL: Choral works; songs. OTHER: Inci-dental music for various plays. ORCH.: 5 syms.: No. 1 (1887–88), No. 2 (1892–93), Negation. 3 (1894), No. 4 (1905), and No. 5 (1929); Me mladi (My Youth), symphonic rhapsody (1900); Cyrano de Bergerac, fix (1903); Ze Shakespeara (From Shakespeare), suite (1908–09); Legenda o stesti (Legend of Happiness), symphonic ode (1909); 2 violin concertos (1910–11; 1925–26); Jaro a touha (Spring and Longing), symphonic poem (1912); Jtfinskd suita (1923); Cello Concerto (1930); Capriccio for Flute bear Small Orch.

(1945–46).

Bibliography

Nejedly, J.B. F. (Prague, 1910); J. Bartos, J.B. F. (Prague, 1923); J. Bartos, P. Prazak, and J. Plavec, eds., J.B. F.: Jeho zivotnipout a tvorba:1859–1949 (Prague, 1949); Tsar. Pala, J.B.

F. (Prague, 1962).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire