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Scott Joplin Scott Joplin’s childhood Scott Joplin was born near Linden, Texas on November 24, 1868. He moved to Texarkana at the age of seven. Even at early age he was talented he played the banjo and was learning to play the piano. At age eleven and with the help of Julius Weiss he learned the finer points of harmony and style. As a teenager he worked as a dance musician. That is Scott Joplin's childhood.

Scott Joplin's career Scott Joplin was a famous jazz composer and pianist also a musician. His nickname was "king of ragtime" and this is why. He wrote 44 ragtime pieces a ballet and two operas. One of his first pieces was "maple leaf rag" and was one of the first and most influential hit of ragtime. With the help of his local teachers he got enough musical knowledge to travel the world as an itinerant musician. He attended the world’s fair in Chicago in 1893.publication of "maple leaf rag" brought him great fame.

He did not reach the same amount of success in his life and frequently had financial problems. Which contributed to the loss of his first opera "The guest of honor". He continued to write ragtime and moved to New York in 1907. He attempted to go beyond the limitations of the musical form which made him famous, without much monetary success his second opera "Treemonisha" was not received well at it's partially stage performed in 1915.

Scott Joplin died from complications of tertiary syphilis in 1917. Joplin’s music was rediscovered and returned to popularity in the early 1970's with the release of a million -selling album of Joplin’s rags recorded by Joshua Rifkin followed by the Academy award-winning movie "The sting " which featured several of his compositions such as "The Entertainer". The opera "Treemonisha" was finally produced in full to wide acclaim in 1972 in 1976,Joplin was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer prize.

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