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Yet, for all his prominence and recognition, many of the facts regarding his life still elude us.

We are not quite sure, for example, when or where he was born. It seems he was born in Texas, probably in the northeast part of the state as U. Census records locate him there in July as a two-year-old child. As he was already two at that time and was twelve when the next Census was taken, in June indicates that the frequently-cited and celebrated birth date of November 24, is incorrect.

So then, when was he born? Available documents point to a birth between June and mid-January They moved to the newly established town of Texarkana, which straddles the Texas-Arkansas border. The Joplins lived on both sides of the border. Anecdotes relate that the young Scott Joplin gained access to a piano in a white-owned home where his mother worked, and taught himself the rudiments of music. In the s, the teenage Joplin lived for a while in Sedalia and attended Lincoln High School in the black neighborhood north of the railroad.

Unconfirmed anecdotes tell also of his starting a musical career in the s and traveling to St. Louis, which was to become a major center of ragtime.

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After the fair, he returned to Sedalia, established it as his home, and played first cornet in the Queen City Cornet Band; a local ensemble of black musicians. His membership in the band was for about a year, and on leaving he formed his own band, working at dances and other events. While retaining Sedalia as his home base, Joplin continued the life of an itinerant musician. He also taught several of the local young musicians in town, most notably Scott Hayden and Arthur Marshall, with whom he later wrote collaborative rags.

In , it appears that he attended music classes at George R. Smith College in Sedalia. This technical deficit did not prevent him from developing as a composer. In he published two marches and a fine waltz. Late in he tried to publish his first two piano rags, but succeeded in selling only Original Rags. This publication experience was not satisfactory as he was forced to share credit with a staff arranger. Charles N. Before Joplin published his next rag, he obtained the assistance and guidance of a young Sedalia lawyer, Robert Higdon.

In August they contracted with Sedalia music store owner and publisher John Stark to publish the Maple Leaf Rag , which was to become the greatest and most famous of piano rags. The contract specified that Joplin would receive a one-cent royalty on each sale, a condition that rendered Joplin a small but steady income for the rest of his life. Sales in the first year were slight, only about , but by , approximately a half-million copies had been sold, and that rate was to continue for the next two decades.

It is a folk-ballet of sorts, illustrating the type of dancing done in the Black and Maple Leaf clubs. Stark announced its publication in September , but then delayed issuing it until He then moved, in , to St. In St. Louis, Joplin associated with ragtime pioneer and saloon owner Tom Turpin and with other ragtimers, but he performed little, preferring to devote his time to composition and teaching.

His publisher John Stark had also moved to St. A few months later, he formed an opera company with personnel of 30, rehearsed the work at the Crawford Theatre in St. Louis, and embarked on a tour scheduled to take him to towns in Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska.

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It was a few weeks later in Pittsburg, Kansas that the tour ended with Joplin unable to meet his payroll. Copies of the score were never filed with the Library of Congress and the music has never been recovered. Comments in newspapers reveal what the opera was about: black leader Booker T. This was an event that polarized the nation, with African-Americans, naturally, taking pride in the event. Joplin had expected Stark to publish the opera, and indicated this in his copyright application.

Following the failed opera tour, Joplin went to Chicago for a few months, and then returned to Arkansas. From there he went to St. Following the marriage, the couple traveled by train to Sedalia stopping at towns along the way so that Joplin could give concerts. Early in July they arrived in Sedalia where Joplin continued to perform. Turpin and Lulu Waters Turpin.

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In his early twenties he opened a saloon in St. Louis, Missouri which became a meeting-place for local pianists and an incubation point for early folk ragtime, such as musician Joe Jordan.

Turpin himself is credited with the first published rag by an African-American, his "Harlem Rag" of it was composed by , a year before ragtime's introduction to the world at the Worlds Fair. Louis Rag," and "The Buffalo Rag".

Turpin was a large man, six feet 1. In addition to his saloon-keeping duties and his ragtime composition, he controlled with his brother Charles a theater, gambling houses, dance halls, and sporting houses. He served as a deputy constable and was one of the first politically powerful African-Americans in St. His influence on local music earned him the title "Father of St. Louis Ragtime. Turpin's date of birth is uncertain; both and appear in published sources.

His gravestone [1] says simply The Federal Census for the city of St. Louis Enumeration District , Sheet 9, Line 79 listed his birthdate as "November ", but on his draft registration card he wrote November 18,