Stephen Foster
Stephen Collins Foster, 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", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", "Old Black Joe", and "Beautiful Dreamer".
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Online Song Sketchbook of Stephen Foster Handwritten draft texts for sixty-four songs"
Works & Publications
No works or publications documented yet.
Timeline
1826
Born
Birth1864
Died
Death
Influenced By
Thinkers whose ideas shaped Stephen's philosophy
No known influences documented.
Influenced
Thinkers whose work was shaped by Stephen's ideas
No influenced thinkers documented yet.
Source Attribution
Information about Stephen Foster is sourced from curated knowledge bases and cross-referenced for accuracy. Influence relationships are scored by thematic overlap and historical plausibility.
Related Thinkers
See all →
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"On the street. I was talking to you and you found something better to do. ~ "Carlos"
— Pete Yorn"I wouldn't blow my head off. I'd overdose or do something that didn't hurt. But I wouldn't do that to the c…"
— Phil Collins"Scanned by the eyes of this intelligence, your path will be without pits to swallow, or snares to entangle …"
— Charles Brockden Brown"Earlier one person would do a sam and the audience ten feet away knew that a new tukda was about to begin b…"
— Birju Maharaj"Leave it to the flow we gettin' dough like a bakery, I don't really want to but these niggas makin' me, Put…"
— Lil Wayne"When my body gets so overexerted with energy, I just keep going and going."
— Bert McCracken
