Louis in , where he continued to compose and publish music, and regularly performed in the St. Louis community. The score to his first opera A Guest of Honor was confiscated in with his belongings because of a non-payment of bills, and is now considered lost. He attempted to go beyond the limitations of the musical form that made him famous, without much monetary success. His second opera, Treemonisha, was not received well at its partially staged performance in In Joplin descended into dementia as a result of syphilis.
He was admitted to a mental institution in January , and died there three months later at the age of Joplin's death is widely considered to mark the end of ragtime as a mainstream music format, and in the next several years it evolved with other styles into stride, jazz, and eventually big band swing.
His music was rediscovered and returned to popularity in the early s with the release of a million-selling album recorded by Joshua Rifkin. This was followed by the Academy Award—winning movie The Sting that featured several of his compositions including "The Entertainer".
The opera Treemonisha was finally produced in full to wide acclaim in In , Joplin was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize. There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review. United States USA. Scott Joplin between July and January ?
April 1, was an African-American composer and pianist, born near Texarkana, Texas, into the first post-slavery generation. He achieved fame for his unique ragtime compositions, and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime. One of his first pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and remained so for a century.
He was blessed with an amazing ability to improvise at the piano, and was able to enlarge his talents with the music he heard around him, which was rich with the sounds of gospel hymns and spirituals, dance music, plantation songs, syncopated rhythms, blues, and choruses. After he studied music with several local teachers, his talent was noticed by a German immigrant music teacher, Julius Weiss, who chose to give the year-old boy lessons free of charge.
He was taught music theory, keyboard technique, and an appreciation of various European music styles, such as folk and opera. As an adult, Joplin also studied at an all-black college in Sedalia, Missouri. Eventually, "the piano-playing public clamored for his music; newspapers and magazines proclaimed his genius; musicians examined his scores with open admiration. This was written, according to opera historian Elise Kirk, to be a "timeless story" about a young black "heroine of the spirit who leads her people from superstition and darkness to salvation and enlightenment.
Thank you very much. Reviewer: flambedude - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 23, Subject: Wonderful. Before reading the description, I figured something was a little off. Then I realized it wasn't a 'live recording'. However, it's still absolutely fantastic, so no matter.
One of my favorite pieces for piano. Very hard to play, too. Never quite got it up to par. Reviewer: soapy-row - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 8, Subject: thanks!
Finest worksong! Reviewer: larrythelabrat - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - September 3, Subject: Thank you Thank you for putting this recording out there. I needed sound track for a time lapse video sequence, and this worked very well.
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