Stephen Foster
American songwriter
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 folk music during the Romantic period. Foster 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". Many of his compositions remain popular in the 21st century.
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Works
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- Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway!
- Alabama-Lied
- American Medley
- Autumn Waltz
- Beautiful Child of Song
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Beautiful Dreamgirl
- Better Times Are Coming
- Bolandse Nooientjie
- Camptown Races
- Camptown Races and End Credits
- Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
- Comrades, Fill No Glass for Me
- De Camptown Races (with Gestures)
- Don't Bet Money on de Shanghai
- DooDah
- Finale
- Foster's Folly (Live)
- Gentle Annie
- Hard Times
- Hard Times (Daless)
- Hard Times Come Again No More
- Harde tider
- Holiday Schottisch
- If You Only Have a Moustache
- Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair
- Jennie's Own Schottish
- Johnny’s Camptown Races
- Laura Lee
- Linger in Blissful Repose
- Little Jenny Dow
- Lulu's Gone
- Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground
- Mir hat 'träumt
- Molly, Do You Love Me?
- My Old Kentucky Home - Good-Night!
- My Wife Is a Most Knowing Woman
- Natta renn sakte ut i fjorden
- Nelly Bly
- Nelly Was a Lady
- Noises Off
- O Susanna! (Wäge dem muesch du nöd trurig sii…)
- Oh Susanna
- Oh Susanna, du Rose der Prärie
- Oh! Susanna
- Old Black Joe
- Old Dog Tray
- Old Folks at Home
- Old Kentucky
- Open Thy Lattice Love
- Ring, Ring de Banjo!
- Shortnin’ Bread
- Siispä laulakaa
- Singa gang guat
- Slumber, My Darling
- Soirée Polka
- Some Folks
- Southern Medley
- Summer Longings
- Swanee River Boogie
- That's What's the Matter
- The California Emigrant
- The Voice of Bygone Days
- Tida går
- Was My Brother in the Battle
- We Are Coming, Father Abraam, 300,000 More
- Welcome to Fort Spencer
- Why, No One to Love?
- Willie We Have Missed You
- Wilt Thou Be Gone, Love?
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