Who is Stephen Foster?

Stephen Foster, or Stephen Collins Foster, lived since July 4, 1826 and 13. January 1864. Many of them are known as the "father of American music". Stephen Foster, which was agreed by many historians and American musicologists, was the leading American composer in the 18th century. Many of his songs, such as "Oh! Susanna", are still popular songs today. Other famous songs Stephen Foster include "my old Kentucky Home", "Camphown Races", "Beautiful Dreamer" and "Old Black Joe". His famous song "Old Folks at Home" is known as "Swanee River". Foster was the youngest of ten children in the working class family. When he took over his father's alcoholism, the family became almost wicked. Foster's education, which included only one month at Washington & Jefferson College, was not largely based on music. Although he had a very small formal training, Foster published a number of songs before his twentieth birthday.

In 1846 he moved to Ohia to work as an accountant for his brother's steam company. There he wrote "Oh! Susanna", who became a hit song and was quite popular among those people who were swept in the Golden Horeba in 1848 and 1849 in 1848 and 1849. He also wrote a hit "Nelly was a lady" who became the famous player of Christa Minstrels. He signed a contract with the group and returned to Pennsylvania. As a result of this contract, May wrote about his most famous songs. Although many of his songs were intended for the BlackFace Minstrel Shows, which were very popular at the time, he told artists and fans that he wrote songs to avoid slave, but formed compassion for them.

At that time, musical copyrights were not as strict as they are today. For this reason, Stephen Fosterobic had time to earn as a composer. It was known that publishers of music lines change the song so slightly that they do not have to pay the author for the rights.

In 1860 Stephen Foster stopVal to New York. One year after the move, his wife returned to Pittsburgh with his daughter and Foster left behind. This meant the beginning of the end for Stephen Foster. The popularity of his songs fell and died at the age of 37.

He became convenient and lived in the North American hotel in Manhattan on the lower east side. At the time of his death, Stephen Foster had exactly 38 cents on his name. Foster experienced a serious fever. After he got up to call Chambermaid for help, he fell and suffered his head. After three days he died in the hospital.