5709499101001

Anthology Of American Piano Music, Vol. 6 - Scott Joplin

Cecilie Licad

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Format: CD

Cat No: DACOCD1010

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Release Date:  07 August 2026

Label:  Danacord - Cd / Danacord

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5709499101001

Genres:  Classical  Solo Instrumental  

Composer/Series:  Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 6 - Scott Joplin

  • Description

    Scott Joplin (1868-1917), along with James Scott and Joseph Lamb, forms what are often called the "three B's" 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 realized, 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.