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SCOTT JOPLIN

24thNovember 1868 --- 1stApril 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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Last Updated on 2021
By Steven Ritchie

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Thanks to B.S. Lengton the music below. Email (mb.lengton@12move.nl

(2672)"A Breeze From Alabama". Sequenced by B.S. Lengton

(2104)"The Chrysanthemum - An Afro-American Intermezzo". Sequenced by Colin D. MacDonald

(2105)"Cleopha March And Two-Step". Sequenced by Colin D. MacDonal

Thanks to George Pollen for the music below. Please see my bookmark page for his website.

(881)"Bethena". Sequenced by George Pollen

(827)"A Picture of Her Face". Sequenced by Ron O'Dell

(828)"The Entertainer". Sequenced by R. J. Stratton

(173)"The Favorite". Sequenced by R.Fennimore

(173)"Bethena a Concerto Waltz". Sequenced by John E Roache

New (3234)"Maple Leaf Rag". Sequencer Unknown.

New (3233)"Unsure of the title to this Rag". Sequencer Unknown.

New (3232)"The Black and White Rag". Sequencer Unknown.

(2103)"Coca Club". Sequencer Unknown.

(2106)"Combination Dance". Sequencer Unknown.

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