Scott Joplin (November 24th 1868 - April 1st 1917) was a Pianiste and Compositeur of American Ragtime.

Biography

Scott Joplin born with Texarkana with the Texas of Florence Givins and Gilles (or " Jiles") Joplin, second of a family of six children. His/her father, player of Violin, was a former slave who worked as workman. His/her mother, player of Banjo, was a free person with the Kentucky.

His/her two parents practitioner thus the music raised their children in a musical environment: his/her many brothers and sisters playing of the Guitar, the Trumpet, or singing in choral societies…

It is said that Scott was fascinated by the piano of one of its neighbors, and that it started to be involved above as of eight years. His/her father, in spite of poverty, offered a Piano and a German professor to him who initiated it very young person (being seen of its talent) with the techniques of harmony and composition.

His/her mother dies whereas it is only fifteen years old, which obliges it to find a work. It starts to play as itinerant musician through the Texas, the Louisiana and the the Mississippi, thus enabling him to meet many musicians.

Publication of “Maple Leaf Rag”, in 1899, done of Joplin one of the great figures of this new musical current, and its name became synonymous with Ragtime. It leaves six rollers of Player piano, but no recording discographic.

He dies in a psychiatric hospital of New York, on April 1st 1917, continuations of a syphilis (at the tertiary state).

Musicography

• 1896 : The Great Crush Collision March , Combination March , Harmony Club Waltz

• 1899 : Original Rags , The Maple Leaf Rag
• 1900 : Swipesy Cakewalk
• 1901 : Peacherine Rag , Sunflower Slow fox trot Drag , The Easy Winners , Augustan Club Waltzes
• 1902 : has Breeze From Alabama , Cleopha , Elite Syncopations , March Majestic , The Entertainer , The Ragtime Dance , The Strenuous Life , I Am Thinking Of My Pickaninny Days
• 1903 : Palm Leaf Rag , Something Doing , Weeping Willow , Little Black Baby
• 1904 : The Chrysanthemum , The Favorite , The Sycamore
• 1905 : Bethena , Eugenia , Leola , Sarah Dear , The Rosebud March , Bink' S Waltz
• 1906 : Antoinette , Eugenia , The Ragtime Dance , Good-bye Old Gall Good-bye (arrangement)
• 1907 : Gladiolus Rag , Pink Leaf Rag , When Your To hate Is Like The Snow , Heliotope Bouquet , Lily Queen , The Nonpareil , Searchlight Rag , Snoring Sampson (arrangement)
• 1908 : Fig Leaf Rag , Hooker' S Hooker , Prick Apple Rag , School Off Ragtime , Sugar Duck , Feeling Rag (arrangement)
• 1909 : Country Club , Euphonic Sounds , Paragon Rag , Pleasant Moments , Solace , Wall Street Rag
• 1910 : Stoptime Rag
• 1911 : Felicity Rag , Lovin' Babe
• 1912 : Scott Joplin' S New Rag
• 1913 : Kismet Rag
• 1914 : Magnetic Rag
• 1916 : Ole Miss Rag
• 1917 : Reflection Rag
• 1917 : Silver Swan Rag (posthumous)

External bonds

• Biographical note on Scott Joplin
• Partitions of music relating to Scott Joplin
• Partitions of ragtimes for piano on WIMA.
• Scott Joplin' S Original Rolls Piano 1896-1917 Creative MP3 Commons

Simple: Scott Joplin

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