Emanuel Aloys Förster

Emanuel Aloys Förster ( born January 26, 1748 in Lower stones, County of Glatz, † November 12, 1823 in Vienna ) was an Austrian music teacher and composer.

Life

His parents were the estate manager Anton Ludwig Förster and Anna Maria, born Teuber. After the parish school in Lower stones he attended the Gymnasium of the Benedictine monastery in Braunau, where his musical talent was recognized early. On the orders of the then Abbot Friedrich Grundmann (1752-1772) he was among the students who received a qualified teacher teaching in the figural. After high school graduation, he worked from 1764 in the estate administration of his father, who worked for Count cousin of the lily. Since his birthplace had fallen along with the County of Glatz after Hubertusburg 1763 Peace to Prussia, he performed his military service from 1766 to 1768 in Fouqué'schen Infantry Regiment, where he was assigned as a military musician.

Already as a young composer Emanuel Aloys Förster several concertos and sonatas by his ear. After he came to a theoretical work of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, he wrote from this. It is believed that this acted to the brochure " Essay on the True way to play the piano ." After returning from the military, he received music lessons from the Middle Walder organist and theory teacher Johann Georg Pausewang. Presumably on his mediation he spent 1776-1779 on in Prague. He then went to Vienna, where he worked as a composer and music educator. By his marriage with Eleanor of Reczka he got in touch with Viennese aristocratic families, which his fame was promoted. He was a member of the Schuppanzigh Quartet, which his Silesian countrymen Peter Hansel, Franz Joseph White and left belonged.

His students included, among others Franz Pecháček and Louis Niedermeyer. With Mozart and Joseph Haydn he had friendly relationship. 22 years younger than Ludwig van Beethoven, he met with Prince Karl Lichnowsky know. Beethoven estimated forester musical work and his work as a composer and led him also to students, including Andreas Razumovsky and Charles Neate.

From forester five children was daughter Eleanor (* 1799) who married a Count Conti 1823, a well-known pianist who composed variations for piano, violin, viola and cello itself. Their one year younger brother Joseph was also a pianist and cellist. Forester Micha daughter Elina married the violinist Pietro Rovelli ( 1793-1838 ). Forester's widow Eleanor survived her husband by 28 years. She died on 10 May 1852 in Vienna.

Forester's musical legacy is in the Austrian National Library.

Works

• General instructions for bass with written musical examples. Published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1805. The manual was launched several times and translated into Czech.
• Emanuel Aloys Förster composed numerous string quartets and quintets, joints, cantatas, piano quartets, oboe concertos and preludes.
• He was one of 50 composers who submitted a variation on a waltz by Anton Diabelli for Part II of the 1824 printed collection Patriotic Association of Artists.