Scott Joplin

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Scott Joplin grew up in Texarkana and as a young pianist travelled around the Midwest. In Sedalia, Missouri, he played at the Maple Leaf Club and studied music at a college for Black students. In 1899 John Stark published his Maple Leaf Rag, which sold well for years and earned him the nickname 'King of Ragtime'. Joplin saw ragtime as serious music and wrote strict, elaborate pieces in it. He moved to New York and wrote the opera Treemonisha, which he never saw performed in full during his lifetime. In 1916 he still recorded a few piano rolls. He died in 1917. Thanks to the ragtime revival of the 1970s he became famous again, and in 1976 he was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

Listening

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  Maple Leaf Rag · Scott Joplin, 1916
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  Weeping Willow · Scott Joplin, 1916
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  The Entertainer · Joshua Rifkin, 1970
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  The Entertainer · Scott Joplin, 1902
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Works

• 1899Maple Leaf Rag
• 1902The Entertainer
• 1911Treemonisha (opera)
• 1916Maple Leaf Rag · pianorol

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Mentioned in other articles

• Player piano and piano roll TechnologyIn the 1920s, the player piano was an ordinary piece of furniture in America, and Scott Joplin and George Gershwin played rolls themselves.
• Maple Leaf Rag SongOn 10 August 1899, the Black pianist Scott Joplin signed a contract in Sedalia with the publisher John Stark for his Maple Leaf Rag.

See also

• Player piano and piano roll
• Jelly Roll Morton