Georg Forster (c. 1510 – 12 November 1568) was a German editor, composer and physician.
[1] Forster was born in Amberg, in the Upper Palatinate.
While a chorister at Elector Ludwig V's court in Heidelberg around 1521, he was a colleague of Caspar Othmayr, who would also become a composer of renown.
Forster received his first instruction in composition from the Kapellmeister Lorenz Lemlin.
Forster wrote and published Frische teutsche Liedlein, a five-part collection of songs.