Author:Stephen Collins Foster

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Stephen Collins Foster
(1826–1864)

America's first professional songwriter; best known for parlor songs such as "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" and "Beautiful Dreamer" as well as blackface minstrel songs that include "Oh! Susanna" and "De Camptown Races". He brought refinement to the minstrel stage by combining the parlor and minstrel genres in songs such as "Nelly Was a Lady". Late in his career, he often set to music the lyrics of George Cooper. Recurrent themes in his works include noble deeds, the loss of family and friends, and a yearning for death

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