Scott Joplin
Maple Leaf Rag
This ragtime is impossible to overlook! For all that, Scott Joplin’s music was largely forgotten for a long time after his death in 1917, until 1970, when the young pianist and musicologist Joshua Rifkin set off a veritable Joplin renaissance with his recording “Piano Rags”. Thanks to the film score for the crime caper “The Sting”, Joplin’s ragtime pieces have become world-famous and are greatly loved by pianists of all ages and playing levels. It is therefore hard to imagine a more suitable editor than Rifkin for the first critical Urtext edition of Scott Joplin’s piano music, which as a significant contribution to American music history finds its rightful place in the Henle catalogue. This practical and affordable individual edition of the “Maple Leaf Rag” – an effective ragtime of medium difficulty – offers a small foretaste of the volume containing all of Joplin’s piano works.
About the Composer
Scott Joplin
An American composer and the most important proponent of the classic rag. While ragtime was originally conceived of as improvisatory, Joplin endeavored to connect it with European performance practice. Along with piano rags and songs, his oeuvre also comprises stage works.
| around 1867/68 | Born in Northeast Texas and grows up in Texarkana. He receives musical instruction from the German Julius Weiss and others. He performs as pianist and singer in a quartet. He learns violin and cornet. |
| around 1880 | In St. Louis he meets Tom Tutpin, whose Rosebud Café establishes itself as the most important nexus of the ragtime scene. |
| 1893 | He participates in the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. |
| 1894–1900 | Living in Sedalia, Missouri. His first compositions meet with success. |
| 1896–97 | At George R. Smith College he deepens his musical studies, while at the same time he is active as a teacher of piano and composition; Arthur Marshall and Scott Hayden number among his pupils. |
| 1899 | The “Maple Leaf Rag” becomes a huge hit and sells 500,000 copies by 1909. Along with “The Entertainer” it is today among Joplin’s best-known works. |
| from 1900/01 | In St. Louis he devotes himself primarily to teaching and composing. He begins work on the opera “A Guest of Honor” (lost). |
| 1903 | ”A Guest of Honor” is premiered. |
| 1904 | For the World Expo in St. Louis, Joplin composes the piano rag “The Cascades.” |
| 1907 | In New York he meets and fosters the young composer Joseph Lamb. |
| 1908–09 | Eight piano rags are published. |
| 1911 | His opera “Treemonisha” is published. |
| 1917 | Dies in New York on April 1. |
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