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Josef Bohuslav Foerster

Czech composer and educator (1859–1951).

Born December 30th, 1859 in Prague.

Died May 29th, 1951 at 91 years old in Nový Vestec.

Occupations
composer, musicologist, painter, pedagogue, pianist, teacher, university teacher, writer

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel