Anthology of American Piano Music Vol.6 - Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime | Danacord DACOCD1010

Anthology of American Piano Music Vol.6 - Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime

£13.78

Label: Danacord

Cat No: DACOCD1010

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Expected Release Date: 7th August 2026

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Scott Joplin (1868-1917), along with James Scott and Joseph Lamb, forms what are often called the "three Bs" of classic ragtime. While hundreds of ragtime composers were active at the turn of the twentieth century - many of them itinerant African American pianists performing largely unnotated rags throughout the Missouri Valley states - it was Joplin who brought the genre into a fully realised, notated art form.

These pianists, almost all male and rarely formally trained, were brilliant improvisers who earned their livelihoods in the so-called "tenderloin districts". Often referred to as "professors", they formed a vibrant musical network that fuelled the ragtime craze from roughly 1890 until World War I. Joplin himself stood apart. Born in Texarkana shortly after the Civil War to a formerly enslaved father and a freeborn mother from Kentucky, he showed early musical promise and received formal instruction from a Czech-Jewish immigrant teacher.

Joplin's respect for disciplined musical training - and his sense of obligation to the genre - shaped the course of ragtime history.

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