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

Works page 13 of 18

Danny Boy

Derry Air

Air from County Derry

Rag-time Dance in B flat major

Noche de paz

Jesús en pesebre

Paragon Rag in G major

Magnetic Rag in Ab major

Kismet Rag in C major

Leola in Ab major

Original Rags in G major

Harmony Club Waltz in Bb major

Felicity Rag in Bb major

Eugenia in Bb major

Elite Syncopations in F major

Combination March in Bb major

Cleopha in F major

Binks' Waltz in B flat major

Bethena a Concert Waltz in G major Ragtime

A Breeze From Alabama in Ab major

A Breeze From Alabama in C major Ragtime

Maple Leaf Rag in A flat major

Maple Leaf Rag in A flat major Ragtime

The Crush Collision March in F major

The Entertainer in C major

Lily Queen in C major

The Strenuous Life in C major

Gladiolus Rag - Horn in F

March Majestic in G major

Rose Leaf Rag in C major

Fig Leaf Rag in B flat major

Palm Leaf Rag in B flat major

The Chrysanthemum in B flat major

Stoptime Rag in C major

Weeping Willow in G major

The Sycamore in G major

Euphonic Sounds in B flat major

Sun Flower Slow Drag in B flat major

Something Doing in F major

Peacherine Rag in E flat major

Wall Street Rag in C major

The Cascades in C major

The Favorite in B flat major

The Entertainer - Set of Parts

The Entertainer - Xylophone

The Easy Winners in Ab major

Reflection Rag in Bb major

Pine Apple Rag in Bb major