Composer

Scott Joplin

1868–1917

837 works in the index

Scott Joplin was born in Texas. Little is known about his early years. There is no precise information about the date of his birth, for example, although he is generally thought to have come into the world in the first half of 1868. In his early years, his mother worked as a maid for a white family known as the Cooks, and Mrs. Cook seems to have given Scott permission to play on her piano while his mother, Florence, was cleaning the house. Ah, what Mrs. Cook was starting! Joplin may have been the first musician ever to sell more than a million copies of a piece of instrumental music, with the commercial success of his Maple Leaf Rag in the 1890s. He is also the composer and librettist of an opera, Treemonisha, published at Joplin’s own expense in 1910 and produced by the music department of Morehouse College and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in January 1972, more than half a century after the composer’s death.

Catalogue

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Rag-Time Dance - Score and Parts

When Your Hair Is Like the Snow

Euponic sounds - Piano

Scott Joplin: Complete Rags

Swipsey Rag - Baritone Sax

Rag-Time Dance - Tuba 2

Swipsey Rag - Score and Parts

Bethena Rag

Pine Apple Rag - Trumpet 1

Solace - Score and Parts

Maple Leaf Rag - Trombone

Kismet Rag - Trombone

Paragon Rag - Trumpet 2 in Bb

Gladiolus Rag - Trumpet 2 in Bb

Treemonisha, No. 12: Treemonisha in Peril

Treemonisha, No. 15: The Rescue

Treemonisha, No. 25: Conjurors Forgiven

Treemonisha, No. 22: Wrong is Never Right

The Cascades - Horn

Euphonic Sounds - Euphonium 2 BC/TC

The Entertainer - Piccolo Trumpet in B-flat

The Rose-Bud March - Cornet 2/Trumpet 2

Magnetic Rag - Trombone 2

Magnetic Rag - Euphonium 1 BC/TC

Easy Winners - Bass Trombone

The Entertainer - Violin

Reflection Rag - Piano

Maple Leaf rag - Preface

Elite Syncopations - Preface

The Chrysanthemum - Preface

The Ragtime Dance - Preface

Wall Street Rag - Piano

Tell the Entertainer to Play a March - Oboe

Swipesy - Score and Parts

Solace Rag

The Entertainer - Guitar 3

Maple Leaf Rag - Tuba

The Entertainer - Trombone 1

Kismet Rag - Score and Parts

Kismet Rag - Tuba

Paragon Rag - Horn in F

Pine Apple Rag - Trumpet 2

The Chrysanthemum - Piano

The Ragtime Dance - Piano

Pine Apple Rag - Preface

Tell the Entertainer to Play a March - Flute

Swipesy - Tuba 2

Easy Winners - Tuba 2