Scott Joplin
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 Scott Joplin facts

• 1867/68 – April 1, 1917) was an African-American composer and pianist
• Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was d믭 the "King of Ragtime Writers"
• During his brief career, he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas
• One of his first pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag
• Joplin was born into a musical family of railway laborers in Northeast Texas, and developed his musical knowledge with the help of local teachers
• Joplin grew up in Texarkana, where he formed a vocal quartet, and taught mandolin and guitar
• During the late 1880s he left his job as a laborer with the railroad, and travelled around the American South as an itinerant musician
• He went to Chicago for the World's Fair of 1893, which played a major part in making ragtime a national craze by 1897
• Joplin moved to Sedalia, Missouri, in 1894 and earned a living as a piano teacher; there he taught future ragtime composers Arthur Marshall, Scott Hayden and Brun Campbell
• Joplin began publishing music in 1895, and publication of his "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1899 brought him fame