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Stephen Foster | |
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 Foster circa 1860 | |
| Born | Stephen Collins Foster July 4, 1826 Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | January 13, 1864 (aged 37) New York City, U.S. |
| Resting place | Allegheny Cemetery (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.) |
| Monuments | Stephen Foster Memorial |
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| Years active | 1844–1864 |
| Agent(s) | Various sheet music publishers and brother, Morrison Foster |
| Known for | First American full-time songwriter[2][3] |
| Notable work | "Beautiful Dreamer" "Camptown Races" "Hard Times Come Again No More" "My Old Kentucky Home" "Oh! Susanna" "Old Black Joe" "Old Folks at Home” among others... |
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| Spouse | Jane McDowell Foster Wiley |
| Children | Marion |
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Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and minstrel music during the Romantic period. He wrote more than 200 songs, including "Oh! Susanna", "Hard Times Come Again No More", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home" ("Swanee River"), "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", "Old Black Joe", and "Beautiful Dreamer", and many of his compositions remain popular today.
- ^ "Stephen C. Foster As Man and Musician, The Life Story of the Sweet Singer of Pittsburg Told by His Contemporaries and Comrades". The Pittsburg Press. September 12, 1900 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Marks, Rusty (April 22, 2001), "On Television: Stephen Foster: Quintessential songwriter lived in music, died in ruin", Sunday Gazette-Mail, Gazette Daily Inc. via HighBeam Research, archived from the original on October 11, 2013, retrieved April 25, 2012,
The song, written in 1847, soon spread throughout the country. Foster decided to become a full-time songwriter, a vocation no one had bothered to pursue until then.
- ^ Pittsburgh Native Son and Songwriter Stephen Foster to be Inducted into Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Oct. 17., US Fed News Service, Including US State News. The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. via HighBeam Research, October 16, 2010, archived from the original on October 11, 2013, retrieved April 25, 2012
