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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The Cyrysanthemum

The Nonpariel

Sycamore Rag

Heliotrop Bouquet

Alexander's Ragtime Band Additional credits Irving Berlin

Dusty Rag Additional credits May Frances Aufderheide

Red Pepper Rag Additional credits Thomas Henry Lodge

32.Peacherine Rag

Treemonisha: A Real Slow Drag

The Favourite

Heliotrope

Chrysanthemum

School of Ragtime - 6 Exercises

Sarah Dear

Hooker's Hooker

Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair

Home on the Range

Hail Hail The Gang's All Here

Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home

Coventry Carol

The Ship That Never Returned

Camptown Races

At A Georgia Camp Meeting

Blue Bells of Scotland

Come Back To Torino

I've Been Workin' On The Railroad

La Cucaracha

The Foggy, Foggy Dew

The Streets Of Laredo

Wayfaring Stranger

To an Old White Pine [Op. 62, No. 7] Additional credits Edward MacDowell

The Memphis Blues Additional credits W.C. Handy

Euponic sounds - Preface

Air from County Derry

Joplin!: E

False

Sensation

Fig Leaf Ra

New Rag

Bouquet

School of Ragtime - 6 Exercises for Piano

The Fool On The Hill

Little Girl

The Glove

Stop-time Rag

Sunflower

Cape Cod Chanty

Look Down That Lonely Road