Dec 29th “Viewed as the “King of Ragtime,” Scott Joplin “

Scott Joplin’s New Rag | Cory Hall, pianist-composer

1902

The ragtime tune “The Entertainer” by the classically trained musician Scott Joplin is registered with the U.S. copyright office.

He also registered two other songs: “A Breeze from Alabama” and “Elite Syncopations.”

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Scott Joplin’s “Scott Joplin’s New Rag”, composed by Scott Joplin and recorded and published in 1912 under the auspices of Scott Joplin, is a ragtime piece written by Scott Joplin in the key of C Major.

Around the time Scott Joplin’s “Scott Joplin’s New Rag” was underway, Scott Joplin was struggling to have the self-published Scott Joplin opera “Treemonisha” performed.

Date: 1912 Performer: Joshua Rifkin on piano

What are Joplin’s two most famous pieces?

He immersed himself in the emerging musical form known as ragtime and became the genre’s foremost composer with tunes like “The Entertainer,” “Solace” and “The Maple Leaf Rag,” which is the biggest-selling ragtime song in history.

Joplin also penned the operas Guest of Honor and Treemonisha.