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Scott Joplin Famous Composer

Scott Joplin was the best black composer you could ever find and everyone loved his concerts. Joplin was born November 24, 1868 and died April 1, 1917. He grew up near Linden, Texas with his mother, father, and five other brother and sisters. After 1871 the Joplin family moved to Texarkana, Texas and that is where he learns to play the piano. Joplin got free piano lessons from a German music teacher. Joplin left home and joined various musical groups and traveled around the mid-west to sing. In 1895, Joplin was in Syracuse, New York, selling two songs, Please Say You Will and A Picture of Her Face. Sadly Joplin's death did not make the headlines for two reasons: ragtime was quickly losing ground to jazz and the United States would enter World War I within days. Joplin was buried in St. Michael's Cemetery in the Astoria section of Queens. Joplin wrote 59 great pieces that everyone loved. In honor of Scott Joplin the have a festival for him in Sedalia,......

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