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    Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime ", [ 1 ] he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces , [ 2 ] one ragtime ballet, and two operas.

  3. Oct 7, 2024 · Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist known as the “king of ragtime” at the turn of the 20th century. “Maple Leaf Rag” and “The Entertainer” are his most famous songs.

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  4. 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...

  5. Apr 1, 2022 · An extraordinary Black composer, born the son of a labourer and former slave, Joplin was one of the most important and influential composers at the turn of the 20th century – one whose name is synonymous with an entire genre. His ideas around harmony, as well as his complex bass patterns and sporadic syncopation, are still imitated by ...

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  6. 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.

  7. Dubbed the ‘King of Ragtime’, Scott Joplin (c.1867-1917) was one of the most important and influential composers at the turn of the 20th century. The champion of ragtime was born in Texas in 1867, or 68 (the exact date and place of his birth are unknown), and grew up there.

  8. Scott Joplin. While Scott Joplin (1868-1917) is most noted for developing ragtime music, he also wrote music for ballet and opera. As Johann Strauss is to the waltz and John Philip Sousais to the march, so is Scott Joplin to ragtime: its guru, chief champion, the figure most closely associated with its composition.