Czech composer, writer and teacher, husband of Bertha Foerster-Lauterer (née Lautererová), singer at the Vienna Court Opera. The two moved to Vienna from Hamburg in 1903, where he taught composition at the Neues Wiener Konservatorium; the couple returned to Prague in 1918 with the creation of Czechoslovakia. Foerster composed six operas, five symphonies, three concertos, cantatas, melodramas, much choral, instrumental, and chamber music.

Foerster and Schenker

Schenker came to know Foerster in 1903, and one letter from Foerster to Schenker survives, dated September 10, 1908, acknowledging receipt of Beitrag zur Ornamentik from Universal Edition, and thanking Schenker (OJ 11/5). In a letter of August 19 of that year to Unversal Edition, Schenker had listed him as someone to receive a complimentary copy of the revised edition of the Beitrag, remarking that he was "a strong supporter of mine" (WSLB 14).