Alban Förster
Alban Förster was a German composer and conductor. A native of Reichenbach im Vogtland, he studied at the Dresden Conservatory, where he later taught in 1881 and 1882. His opera The Maidens of Schilde, to a libretto by, premiered in Dresden in 1889. His opera Lorle, to a libretto by Hans Heinrich Schefsky, was premiered in the same city in 1891. He died at Neustrelitz, where he had been a court musician and later court conductor.