Josef Bohuslav Foerster was a Czech composer and music critic born in Prague in 1859 who began his career in the late 19th century and worked in opera, orchestral, chamber, choral and sacred music within the late-Romantic tradition. His music is marked by lyrical, often spiritual tendencies and engagement with Central European musical and liturgical traditions, and across a long career—during which he lived and worked in Prague and other cultural centres—he produced numerous operas, symphonies, chamber pieces and choral works reflecting that evolution.
