Scott Joplin - Original Rags (1916)

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Performed by: Scott Joplin
Full Song Title: Original Rags
Recorded in: date unknown, released 1916
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Scott Joplin (born c. November 24, 1868 - died April 1, 1917) was an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin is also known as the "King of Ragtime" because of the fame achieved for his ragtime compositions, music that was born out of the African-American community. During his brief career, he wrote over 100 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag.
Joplin grew up in a musical family of railway laborers in Texarkana, Arkansas, and developed his own musical knowledge with the help of local teachers. While in Texarkana, Texas, he formed a vocal quartet and taught mandolin and guitar. During the late 1880s, he left his job as a railroad laborer and traveled the American South as an itinerant musician. He went to Chicago for the World's Fair of 1893, which played a major part in making ragtime a national craze by 1897.
Joplin moved to Sedalia, Missouri, in 1894 and earned a living as a piano teacher. There he taught future ragtime composers Arthur Marshall, Scott Hayden and Brun Campbell. He began publishing music in 1895, and publication of his "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1899 brought him fame. This piece had a profound influence on writers of ragtime. It also brought Joplin a steady income for life, though he did not reach this level of success again and frequently had financial problems. In 1901, Joplin moved to St. Louis, where he continued to compose and publish and regularly performed in the community. The score to his first opera, A Guest of Honor, was confiscated in 1903 with his belongings for non-payment of bills and is now considered lost.
In 1907, Joplin moved to New York City to find a producer for a new opera. He attempted to go beyond the limitations of the musical form that had made him famous but without much monetary success. His second opera, Treemonisha, was never fully staged during his life.
By 1916, Joplin was suffering from tertiary syphilis, but more specifically it likely was neurosyphilis. In January 1917, he was admitted to Manhattan State Hospital, a mental institution. He died there on April 1 of syphilitic dementia at the age of 48 and was buried in a pauper's grave that remained unmarked for 57 years. His grave at St. Michael's Cemetery in East Elmhurst was finally given a marker in 1974. Joplin's death is widely considered to mark the end of ragtime as a mainstream music format; over the next several years, it evolved with other styles into stride, jazz and eventually big band swing.
A big thank you to Guillermo Pena for reminding me of Scott Joplin's wonderful music. I wanted to upload the record many years ago, but it must have slipped my memory. Well, better late than never, enjoy!
I hope you enjoy this as much as I have.
Best wishes,
Stu
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@The_momur Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing. What a legacy Scott Joplin left.

@luketerris6961 Жыл бұрын

It is impossible to feel any other emotion except joy while listening to a good Joplin Rag. Thank you so much for blessing us with this recording!

@JamesIrwins78s Жыл бұрын

Joplin’s first composition, composed right before Maple Leaf Rag, and if this is really a 1916 recording of him amazing, thanks!

@Whodmyname Жыл бұрын

This probably isn't a recording of Scott Joplin, since back then it was better for them to just make piano rolls since the audio recording was low quality back then. So what the title probably means is that the roll is from 1916.

@JamesIrwins78s Жыл бұрын

@@Whodmyname 78 rpms in 1916 weren’t low quality, you can find some that weren’t treated right and they don’t sound very good, but the ones that were treated right sound just fine. By that point they had a standardized speed, and larger rooms were being used for the bands to play in, the catalogs were set up, and the phonograph was a common household appliance. You are right though, the only available “recordings” of Joplin were done on piano rolls in 1916, though they were changed a lot in the following years by Nancarrow who worked at QRS, so it really depends on whether this is an early copy or not, if it is then it’s Joplin playing if it’s not then it’s Nancarrow. I learned about these rolls recently, probably just following after this post 2 months ago, here’s what Maple Leaf Rag sounded like when Joplin played it via piano roll: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXjOaJKQbsmZr9k&pp=ygUmbWFwbGUgbGVhZiByYWcgc2NvdHQgam9wbGluIHBpYW5vIHJvbGw%3D

@Doug19752533 Жыл бұрын

@@Whodmyname while joplin did make piano rolls in 1916, Original Rags was not among them. he did 2 rolls of Maple Leaf Rag (the first roll made in April 1916, the second roll made in June 1916 shows an incredible decline in his playing over just 2 months), Something Doing, Weeping Willow, Plesant Moments, Silver Swan Rag (this was released in 1914), Magnetic Rag, and Ole Miss Rag by W.C. Handy

@Whodmyname Жыл бұрын

@@JamesIrwins78sI didn’t know that the quality was good back then. I also meant to say that there were no recordings of Joplin besides piano rolls. And this is not his first piece like you originally said.

@georgehennessy1256 Жыл бұрын

Marvelous to have this!!!!!

@guillermopena5656 2 жыл бұрын

Gracias por está belleza musical que endulza el alma más en estos tiempos difíciles. Rag estupendo!!

@hughmcaloon6506 Жыл бұрын

Listening to the man himself play it as it was intended... pretty darned cool. Thanks for posting this! (also, downtown L.A. I didn't recognize it. So full of people clearly living there. Not too much of that now).