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Stephen Foster
Stephen Collins Foster, also known as the "Father of American music", is an American musician best known for salon music and minstrel music. He has written over 200 songs including "Oh! Susanna", "Hard Times Come Again No More", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair. "," Old Black Joe "and" Beautiful Dreamer ", and many of his compositions are still loved today. He has been identified as "the most famous musician of the 19th century" and is possibly the most recognizable American composer in other countries. Most of his music manuscripts have been lost, but publications published by publishers of his day are in various collections.
BornStephen Collins Foster, July 4, 1826, Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedJanuary 13, 1864, New York City, New York, U.S.
Resting placeAllegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
MonumentsStephen Foster Memorial, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
EducationAthens Academy, Towanda, Pennsylvania Athens Academy
OccupationComposer, lyricist, poet
Years active1844–1864
AgentVarious sheet music publishers and brother, Morrison Foster
Known forFirst fully professional U.S. songwriter
Notable work"Angelina Baker", "Beautiful Dreamer", "Camptown Races", "Gentle Annie", "The Glendy Burk", "Hard Times Come Again No More", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Oh! Susanna", "Old Black Joe", "Old Folks at Home" ("Swanee River"), "Open Thy Lattice Love"
StylePeriod music, minstrels
Spouse(s)Jane McDowell Foster Wiley (1829–1903) (other sources use Jane Denny Foster Wiley)
ChildrenMarion Foster Welch (1851–1935)
Parent(s)William Barclay Foster (1779–1855), Eliza Clayland Tomlinson Foster (1788–1855)
RelativesEvelyn Foster Morneweck (niece and biographer), James Foster (grandfather), Siblings:Charlotte Susanna Foster (1809–1829), Anne Eliza Foster Buchanan (1812–1891), Henry Baldwin Foster (1816–1870), Henrietta Angelica Foster Thornton (1819–1879), Dunning McNair Foster (1821–1856), Morrison Foster (1823–1904)

About Stephen Foster

Folk Singer Stephen Foster was born on July 4, 1826 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States (He dies at the age of 37, on January 13, 1864).

Oh! Among his compositions are"Susanna,""Beautiful Dreamer,""My Old Kentucky Home", and other standards. He was dubbed the"Father of American Music".

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Stephen Foster before becoming famous

Stephen Foster was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1826 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Dog (狗).

He used to work as a bookkeeper for a steamship company.

Achievement of Stephen Foster

He was inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Stephen Foster's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

With an older brother called William, he attended private academies in Allegheny, Athens, and Towanda, Pennsylvania.

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His song"Nelly Bly" inspired journalist Nellie Bly's pen name.

Stephen Foster Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Stephen Foster updated on March 11 2023.