Christoph Förster

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Christoph Förster (30 November 1693 – 6 December 1745) was a German composer of the baroque period. Christoph Förster (spelled Johann Christoph Friedrich in his death register) was born in Bibra, Thuringia as the son of council treasurer Christian Förster who gave him his first musical instruction in singing and playing on various instruments. He began organ studies with local organist Johann Philipp Pitzler, with whom he traveled. In 1710 he met Johann David Heinichen in Weissenfels, who at the time was working as a lawyer. With Heinichen, he took lessons in general bass and also began studying composition. When Heinichen went to Italy, Förster moved to Merseburg where he continued his studies with the Kapellmeister and court organist Georg Friedrich Kaufmann. Later, in 1717 he was employed as a chamber musician in the Sachsen-Merseburg Hofkapelle where he played second violin to Johann Gottlieb Graun, whom he later superseded as Konzertmeister. In 1723, Förster traveled to Prague with his employer for the coronation of Charles VII of Bohemia. In Prague, he made the acquaintance of the Viennese court musicians Fux, Caldara, Conti and Piani and also took part in a performance of Fux's Constanza e Fortezza and performed in a concert as a harpsichord soloist and violinist for a Dutch ambassador. He continued to serve at his post in Merseburg until the Hofkapelle was dissolved in 1738 following the death of the Duke Moritz Wilhelm. At the birthday of Frederick Anton, Prince

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Before Mozart: Early Horn Concertos

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Music for Horn / Ádám Friedrich (French Horn)

Graun: Oboe Concertos

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Horn Concertos

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Barry Tuckwell: Horn Concertos

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Baroque Music for Horn and Strings

Jauchzt, ihr frohen Christenscharen

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Oboe Concertos - Stulick, M.N. / Graupner, C./ Forster, C. / Dittersdorf, C.D. Von

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Coastal Communities Concert Band - 29th Anniversary Concert

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Forster / Haydn / Cherubini / Mozart / Mendelssohn: Works for Horn

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Handel / Forster: Oboe Concertos

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Telemann, G.P.: Concerto, Twv 54:F1 / Bach, W.F.: Sinfonia, F. 67 / Forster, C.: Horn Concerto in E-Flat Major

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