Both of these Maple Leaf Rag recordings are made from piano rolls released in 1916. The edited roll was published by Connorized, and the unedited version by the Aeolian Company. Scott Joplin was once ...

A pulsating piano solo by a black composer published 125 years ago this fall became an unexpected bestseller, drew droves of young people to the piano, and became an enduring classic of American music ...

In the early 1880s, a young African American boy in Texarkana named Scott Joplin was trained in the fundamentals of classical music and opera by his German-born teacher. Born near Linden, Joplin was ...

From piano rags to rich opera overtures, here’s a look at Scott Joplin’s greatest works. Since the revival of his music in the 1970s, history has remembered Scott Joplin as “the King of Ragtime”. His ...

Friday is the anniversary of Scott Joplin’s death in 1917. The story of this Black master of the ragtime genre can seem like one that never got far beyond the starting gate and ended with a sad ...

Were it not for ragtime composer Scott Joplin, Tom McDermott may not have evolved into one of New Orleans’ most respected pianists. Growing up in St. Louis, McDermott had, by age 14, spent seven years ...

In the post-Civil War era, the cruel breath of slavery and the aborted plan of Reconstruction still hung over the American South. But in the Joplin home, banjo and fiddle music filled the family’s ...