Georg Forster

Forster, Georg (Amberg, 1514-68, Nuremberg), studied medicine at Heidelberg and Wittenberg, and settled in 1544 at Nuremberg, where he practised as a physician. Between 1539 and 1556 he published five volumes of songs, which he had collected, together with the music for them. Love songs predominate, and the second and fifth volumes contain a number of folk-songs. Some of the music was composed by Forster himself. Though the titles of the individual volumes vary (they appeared respectively in 1539 (1), 1540 (2), 1549 (3), 1556 (4 and 5)), they are usually known as Frische teutsche Liedlein.