Composer
Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, pianist (1867/68-1917)
1868–1917
701 works in the index
- Era
- Modern
- Nationality
- United States
- Born in
- Linden
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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Great Crush Collision - March
Londonderry Air
Please Say You Will
Felicity Rag
Harmony Club Waltz
Fig Leaf (A High Class Rag)
The Favorite
Ragtimes
Combination March
Leola
CHRYSANTHEMUM, THE (JOPLIN)
I Am Thinking of My Pickaninny Days
Danny Boy
Great Crush Collision
School of Ragtime
Little Black Baby
When The Saints Go Marchin' In
Waltz of the Flowers
6. Magnetic Rag
Elite Syncopation
The Entertaine
A Picture Of Her Face
Crush Collision March
The Midnight Special
Green Grow The Lilacs
A Breeze From Albama
Medley Additional credits Ross Lee Finney
The Chevy Chase Additional credits James Hubert "Eubie" Blake
The House of the Rising Sun
5. Eugenia
Derry Air
March Majestic
Rollography of Joplin Works
Children's Song
I've Been Working On The Railroad
It Takes A Worried Man
Tom Dooley
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Michael Row The Boat Ashore
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Greensleeves
Amazing Grace
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Come And Go With Me
Scarborough Fair
When Johnny Comes Marchin' Home
Elite Syncopation Rag
The Streuous Life
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