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Josef Bohuslav Foerster

1859 - 1951

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Josef Bohuslav Foerster (30 December 1859 – 29 May 1951) was a Czech composer and musicologist. He is often referred to as J. B. Foerster, and his surname is sometimes spelled Förster. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josef Bohuslav Foerster is the 717th most popular composer (down from 696th in 2019), the 337th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 325th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Josef Bohuslav Foerster ranks 717 out of 1,451. Before him are Leó Weiner, Robert Volkmann, Michel Corrette, Benjamin Godard, Eduard Tubin, and Adalbert Gyrowetz. After him are Diego Ortiz, Václav Tomášek, Nannette Streicher, Alberto Iglesias, Anton Schindler, and Giaches de Wert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Josef Bohuslav Foerster ranks 68. Before him are Adolf Bertram, Sergei Lyapunov, John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Nahum Sokolow, Otto Warburg, and Ernst Hartert. After him are Gustave Kahn, Peder Mørk Mønsted, Otto Hölder, Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Anna Palm de Rosa, and Aurel Stodola. Among people deceased in 1951, Josef Bohuslav Foerster ranks 78. Before him are Lincoln Ellsworth, Eugen Meindl, Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia, Fritz Busch, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, and Robert Broom. After him are Simon Kimbangu, Ernest Bevin, Bernhard Kellermann, Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria, Karl Koller, and Erich Neumann.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Josef Bohuslav Foerster ranks 337 out of 1,200. Before him are Josef Sudek (1896), Károly Khuen-Héderváry (1849), Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812), Svatopluk Pluskal (1930), Józef Czapski (1896), and Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763). After him are Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe (1873), Zdeněk Nehoda (1952), Václav Tomášek (1774), Josef Jungmann (1773), Milan Baroš (1981), and Anton Schindler (1795).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Josef Bohuslav Foerster ranks 33. Before him are Alois Hába (1893), František Brixi (1732), Oskar Nedbal (1874), Paul Wranitzky (1756), Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656), and Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763). After him are Václav Tomášek (1774), Anton Schindler (1795), Otakar Ševčík (1852), Antonio Rosetti (1746), Antonín Vranický (1761), and Jan Václav Voříšek (1791).

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