Foltmar, Johann 1714 - 04/26/1794

Johan Foltmar was a Danish organist, composer.
He was the second son of Johan Voltmar who had immigrated to Copenhagen about 1711.
Already as a young Johan Foltmar an esteemed musician in the Copenhagen environment. He was, for example. a leader of the Det musikalske Societet (Denmark's first musical society), founded in 1744 together with eg Holberg, Johannes Erasmus Iversen and Johann Adolph Scheibe. Some years later, in 1768, he is mentioned as an honorary member of the New Musical Orthopaedics Society in cooperation with, among others, Scheibe and Johannes Ewald.