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 ...

Maple leaves and palms, chrysanthemums and gladiolas — all these botanicals found their way into the piano rags by Scott Joplin. The American composer, organist and pianist William Albright recorded ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3)—Sedalia, Missouri, will host the International Ragtime Festival next week (May 28-31). The festival celebrates the life of famous Missourian Scott Joplin. Joplin landed in ...

The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet ...

Scott Joplin was raised in a musical family of railway laborers in Texarkana, Texas. During the late 1880s, he traveled the American South as a musician and in 1893 he went to Chicago for the World's ...