SCOTT JOPLIN American Composer (1868-1917). Scott Joplin free midi download

SCOTT JOPLIN
24^thNovember 1868 --- 1^stApril 1917

Scott Joplin (born 1868, Bowie county, Texas, U.S.A--died 1917, New York, U.S.A), American black composer and pianist known as
the "king of ragtime" at the turn of the 20th century.

Studying piano with teachers near his childhood home, Joplin traveled through the Midwest from the mid-1880s, performing at the
Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Settling in Sedalia, Mo. in 1895, he studied music at the George R. Smith College for
Negroes and hoped for a career as a concert pianist and classical composer. His first published songs brought him fame and in
1900 he moved to St. Louis to work more closely with the music publisher John Stark.

Joplin published his first extended work, a ballet suite using the rhythmic devices of ragtime, with his own choreographical style of
directions, in 1902. His first opera, A Guest Of Honor (1903), is no longer extant and may have been lost by the copyright office.
Moving to New York City in 1907, Joplin wrote an instruction book, The School Of Ragtime, outlining his complex bass patterns
sporadic syncopation, stop-time breaks and harmonic ideas, which were widely imitated. Joplin's contract with Stark ended in 1909
and though he made piano rolls in his final years, most of Joplins efforts involved Treemonisha, which synthesized his musical ideas
into a conventional, three-act opera. He also wrote the libretto, about a mythical black leader, and choreographed it. Treemonisha
had only one semipublic performance during Joplin's lifetime, he became obsessed with its success, suffered a nervous breakdown
and collapse in 1911, and was institutionalized in 1916.

Joplins reputation as a composer rests on his classic rags for piano including "Maple Leaf Rag" and "The Entertainer," published from
1899 to 1909, and his opera, Treemonisha, published at his own expense in 1911. Treemonisha was well received when produced
by an Atlanta, Ga, troupe on Broadway in 1972, and interest in Joplin and ragtime was stimulated in the 1970s by the use of his
music in the Academy Award-winning score to the film The Sting.
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