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Josef Bohuslav Foerster - Träumereien, Op.47

0:00 I. Sostenuto molto 5:36 II. Tempo di valse 9:02 III. Andante con moto 12:17 IV. Allegreto grazioso 14:14 V. Allegro Josef Bohuslav Foerster, born Josef Caspar Franz Förster (30 December 1859 in Prague - 29 May 1951 in Nový Vestec near Stará Boleslav) was a Czech composer, teacher, writer and music critic. Foerster was born in Prague. His ancestors were of Bohemian German ethnicity, but had assimilated into the Czech community. The family normally lived in Prague and was musical. His father, a composer also named Josef Foerster, taught at the Conservatory. (His father's students included Franz Lehár) His brother was artist Viktor Foerster. Josef was educated accordingly, and duly studied there. He also showed an early interest in the theatre, and thought of becoming an actor. He taught music; one of his early students was composer and Stuttgart court pianist Anna Sick. From 1884 Foerster worked as a critic, and he would prove to be a writer of distinction. In 1893 he married the leading Czech soprano Berta Lautererová (Bertha Lauterer) in Hamburg, during ten years making his living there as a critic, and she was engaged at the Hamburg Staatsoper. In 1901 he became a teacher at the Hamburg Conservatory. In 1903 Berta went to sing at the Vienna Hofoper, and so Josef moved there with her, continuing to make a living as a music critic. He returned to Prague on the foundation of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918, thereafter teaching at the conservatory and the university. In 1946 he was declared a National Composer. He died in Nový Vestec. Foerster's musical language grows out of the works of the Czech "classics" Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák and Zdeněk Fibich, as well as the works of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Edvard Hagerup Grieg and Robert Schumann. Although Foerster belongs to the Czech musical modernism in terms of generation, his works can be described as rather "traditional". Unlike Leoš Janáček or Vítězslav Novák, Foerster did not show any significant innovations. Foerster's characteristic musical style crystallized at the beginning of his Hamburg period and, apart from the harmonic component, remained almost unchanged throughout his long creative life. Foerster was a lyricist by nature, and his music is characterized by an intimate subjectivity. A distinctive element of his work is its deep meditation and spiritual dimension. It also reflects a close relationship to organ composition and vocal polyphony, the roots of which can be traced back to Foerster's childhood (his father was an organist) and his studies with Zdeněk Skuherský at the organ school. His interest in literature, especially poetry, contributed greatly to the uniqueness of Foerster's compositional style. The wide range of themes and texts from Czech and world literature appearing in his compositions shows an extraordinary range of vision. Foerster paid particular attention to J. V. Sládek, whose verses he set to music so many times in his songs and choruses. He was also the first European composer to set to music the poems of the Bengali Rabindranath Thakur.5 Foerster represents an intellectual, thinking type of composer, inclined towards metaphysics and religious themes. It is easy to understand why his work was inconvenient after 1948 and his vast and varied compositional legacy to the public limited to a select choral output Patricia Goodson, piano Original sound:    • Dreaming, Op. 47: I. Sostenuto molto   The sheet music is freely accessible from imslp.org