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Joplin moved to Sedalia, Missouri, in 1894 and worked as a piano teacher. He began publishing music in 1895, and his "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1899 brought him fame and eventually a steady income. In 1901, Joplin moved to St. Louis and two years later scored his first opera, A Guest of Honor.
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Aug 30, 2024 · Scott Joplin (born 1867/68, Texas, U.S.—died April 1, 1917, New York City, New York) was an American composer and pianist who became known as the “king of ragtime ” at the turn of the 20th century. After his death, his contributions to American music were recognized with a Pulitzer Prize.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Who Was Scott Joplin? Born in the late 1860s somewhere along the border between Texas and Arkansas, Scott Joplin took up the piano as a child and eventually became a travelling musician as a...
Scott Joplin was the most sophisticated and tasteful ragtime composer of the era. But he aspired to more. His goal was to be a successful composer for the lyric stage and he continually worked toward this end.
In a career that can arguably be labelled as short for his age, Joplin surprisingly managed to become one of the most respected classical musicians of all time. Having been born in a family of former slave farmers, it was hard for young Joplin to imagine becoming a celebrated musician.
Known during his lifetime as the “King of Ragtime Writers,” Scott Joplin was an African American musician and the foremost contributor to a “Missouri style” of ragtime music in the 1890s and early 1900s.
Scott Joplin (January 1868 - April 1, 1917) was an African-American composer and instrumentalist who became the leading exponent of ragtime music. Ragtime combined African-American syncopation and folk melodies with European classical conventions to create an original American musical style recognized as a precursor to jazz .
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