“Narcissus,” for solo piano, was published in Water Scenes, op. 13, in 1891. As one of Nevin’s most popular pieces, numerous arrangements were made of the work. Holograph sketches are found in the Ethelbert Nevin Collection.
WARNING: This is a blackface minstrel song, a genre that features demeaning caricaturesrooted in racism and white supremacy.
“Nelly was a Lady” was submitted for copyright deposit on July 18, 1849, by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York. A version of the song existed by December 5, 1848 when the title was entered for copyright in Pittsburgh.
“Never Touch Water” is a song by Robert Schmertz. It was included in A Picture Book of Song & Ballads Composed and Illustrated by Robert Schmertz (1976). Three manuscripts of the song can be found in the Robert Schmertz Collection.
“No One to Love” was submitted for copyright deposit twice by S. T. Gordon of New York, on June 20, 1862, as “No One to Love” and on July 24, 1862, as “Why, No One to Love?”
According to Evelyn Foster Morneweck’s The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family:
Firth, Pond & Co. deposited Stephen C. Foster’s “None Shall Weep a Tear for Me” for copyright on February 9, 1860. The lyrics are Richard Henry Wilde’s “My Life Is Like the Summer Rose.” The popular text was set by many composers following its initial publication in the April 1819 issue of Analectic Magazine.
According to Evelyn Foster Morneweck’s The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family:
Adolph M. Foerster’s “Novelette für Violine und Klavier,” op. 26, was published in 1890 by Fritz Schuberth Jr. in Leipzig and Hamburg, Germany, and by Edward Schuberth in New York.
