The manuscript full-score for Adolph M. Foerster’s “The Falconer,” op. 31, lists three performances: December 29, 1893, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, conducted by Foerster; May 10, 1894, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, conducted by J. P. McCollum; and April 29, 1895, in Detroit, Michigan, conducted by William Yauck. 

WARNING: This is a blackface minstrel song, a genre that features demeaning caricatures rooted in racism and white supremacy.

“Farewell My Lilly Dear,” arranged for guitar accompaniment, was submitted for copyright deposit on August 26, 1853.

The song also appears in “Old Folks Quadrilles.”

According to Evelyn Foster Mornweck’s The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family: 

“Farewell Old Cottage” was entered for copyright deposit on March 22, 1851, by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York. 

According to Evelyn Foster Mornweck’s The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family:

The manuscript, in Adolph M. Foerster’s hand, is dated February 19, 1893.

Firth, Pond & Co. deposited Stephen C. Foster’s “For Thee, Love, For Thee” for copyright on June 10, 1859. The lyrics were written by William Henry McCarthy, a friend of the composer from Pittsburgh.

In The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Evelyn Foster Morneweck relays a story about a riverboat trip Stephen took with his friend Billy Hamilton:

Four Love Songs, op. 65, is a set of songs for voice and orchestra by Adolph M. Foerster. The songs in the set are “I Love Thee” (poetry by Thomas Hood),  “Love Thee, Dearest?” (poetry by Thomas Moore), “Love’s Litany” (poetry by Wallace Bruce), and “To See Thee, To Love Thee” (poetry by Thomas Moore). Manuscripts in the composer’s hand for the third song, “Love’s Litany,” are found in the Adolph M. Foerster Collection.

Adolph M. Foerster’s Four Songs, op. 45, was published in 1897. The score of the first song erroneously labels it “opus 43.” The songs in the set are “The Grecian Isles,” “She Walks in Beauty,” “Shepherd’s Lament,” and “When Thou Art Nigh.” A partial manuscript in the composer’s hand exists for the first song, and the published scores of the first three songs can be found in the Adolph M. Foerster Collection.

The manuscript in the William Oetting Collection is dated March 15, 1900.