Stephen Foster

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Works

63

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Sound · Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American songwriter known primarily for his parlor and minstrel music. 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",…

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1826

Active to

1864

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67,952

The famous American songwriter Stephen Foster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster) (July 4, 1826- January 14, 1864) was author of the words and music of some of the most well-known American songs, including "Camptown Races" and "I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair". Since all his songs are firmly in the public domain, many artists have recorded them over the years, and in digital recordings they are Stephen Foster's name often appears in the "artist" field of the ID3 label. Se

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Basic local alignment search tool

   · 1990 · cited 80,810x

2. Convex Optimization

   · 2004 · cited 41,074x

3. Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows

   · 2021 · cited 29,279x

4. Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology

   · 2015 · cited 29,089x

5. Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers

   · 1938 · cited 24,540x

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Quotes

• “Oh I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee,I'm going to Louisiana, my true love for to seeIt rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dryThe sun so hot I froze to death; Susanna, don't you cry.Oh, Susanna, don't you cry for meFor I come from Alabama,With my banjo on my knee.”
• “Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,Gone from the earth to a better land I know,I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe."”
• “Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd away.”
• “The head must bow, and the back will have to bend,Wherever the darkey may go;A few more days, and the trouble all will end,In the field where the sugar-canes grow.A few more days for to tote the weary load,—No matter, 't will never be light;A few more days till we totter on the road:—Then my old Kentucky home, good-night!”
• “Sadly I roam,Still longing for de old plantation,And for de old folks at home.”
• “All up and down the whole creation,Sadly I roam,Still longing for the old plantation,And for the old folks at home.”

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Key facts

Born

Stephen Collins Foster , ( 1826-07-04 ) July 4, 1826, Lawrenceville , Pennsylvania , U.S.

Died

January 13, 1864 (1864-01-13) (aged 37), New York City , U.S.

Resting place

Allegheny Cemetery ( Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, U.S.)

Monuments

Stephen Foster Memorial

Occupations

Composer lyricist poet

Years active

1844–1864

Agent s

Various sheet music publishers and brother, Morrison Foster

Known for

First American full-time songwriter

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...

Style

American folk minstrels

Spouse

Jane McDowell Foster Wiley ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1850 ) ​

Children

Marion

Parents

William Barclay Foster (father) Eliza Clayland Tomlinson Foster (mother)

Relatives

Morrison Foster (brother) Evelyn Foster Morneweck (niece)

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