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[2] Joplin had the majority of his works published by John Stark of Sedalia, Missouri, although he did use other lesser-known companies including his own "Scott Joplin Music Publishing Company." His first opera, A Guest of Honor , was lost after an unsuccessful tour in 1903.
Scott Joplin House in St. Louis, Missouri Cover of Scott Joplin's 1905 work "Bethena"; the woman on the cover may be Joplin's second wife, Freddie Alexander [12] There have been many claims about the sales of the "Maple Leaf Rag", one being that Joplin was the first musician to sell 1 million copies of a piece of instrumental music. [ 3 ]
Ballets to the music of Scott Joplin (1 P) O. Operas by Scott Joplin (2 P) R. Rags by Scott Joplin (16 P, 1 F) Pages in category "Compositions by Scott Joplin"
In 1903, Stark issued a "Maple Leaf Rag Song", an arrangement of Joplin's music with words by Sydney Brown. [11] Brown's lyrics tell the story of a poor man from Accomack County, Virginia, who stumbles into a ballroom where, in spite of his anxiety over the state of his appearance, he manages to wow the crowd with the Maple Leaf Rag.
1903 Advertising poster for A Guest of Honor by Scott Joplin. A Guest of Honor (ISJ 54) [1] is the first opera created by celebrated ragtime composer Scott Joplin.The opera had two acts, followed the model of grand opera, [2] and followed the events surrounding the 1901 White House dinner hosted by President Theodore Roosevelt for the civil rights leader and educator Booker T. Washington.
Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. Though many details of his short life are uncertain, his impact on early American ...
Four events brought forward a different kind of ragtime revival in the 1970s. First, pianist Joshua Rifkin released a compilation of Scott Joplin's work, Scott Joplin: Piano Rags, on Nonesuch Records, which was nominated in 1971 for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra) category. [22]
Like most Joplin compositions, "Searchlight Rag" was still under copyright during the ragtime revival of the 1970s, and the holder of copyrights for this piece, "Fig Leaf Rag" and "Rose Leaf Rag" withheld permission for their inclusion in the definitive New York Public Library edition of Joplin's works [3] and other collections.