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Josef Bohuslav Foerster
Josef Bohuslav Foerster was a Czech composer, born on 30 December 1859 at Dětenice (near Prague).
The son of the composer Josef Foerster (1833-1907), who was a professor at the Prague Conservatory, Josef studied at the Prague Organ School (1879-1882), before succeeding Dvořák as organist of St Vojtěch (1882-1888). He also taught singing in Prague secondary schools, and at the age of 25 he began a long career as a music and theatrical critic, writing for the newspaper Národní listy.
After marrying the Czech soprano Berta Lautererová in 1888, the couple settled in Hamburg five years later, where Josef began to write for the Neue Hamburger Zeitung, the Hamburger freie Presse, and the Hamburger Nachtrichten. His appointment as teacher of piano at the Hamburg Conservatory proved to be short-lived (1901-1903), when Josef and Berta removed to Vienna, but he became professor of composition at the New Conservatory in the Austrian capital, and from 1910 was music critic for the daily newspaper Die Zeit.
On the formation of the newly-independent state of Czechoslovakia, he returned to Prague as professor of composition at the conservatory (1919-1922), later teaching music at the University (1920-1936). From 1931 until 1939 he was president of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Art.
Josef Bohuslav Foerster died at Nový Vestec.on 29 May 1951, aged 91.
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