He died 1 April 1917 in New York following a lengthy hospitalization. In the mid-1910s, beset with syphilis, he made hand-played piano rolls of several of his compositions. The search proved fruitless and the opera was not staged in Joplin’s lifetime.
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He joined the Colored Vaudeville Benevolent Association (CVBA) and set about the arduous task of seeking a backer to mount a full staging of the work. There he focused his efforts on the completion of what he considered his chef-d’oeuvre, the opera Treemonisha. He went briefly to Chicago in 1907, where he collaborated with an ailing Louis Chauvin on the rag “Heliotrope Bouquet.” By the end of 1907, he had settled in New York City. In 1903, he completed and staged his first opera, A Guest of Honor (now lost). Louis in 1901 and continued teaching and composing. His “Maple Leaf Rag,” issued by Sedalia-based publisher John Stark in 1899, proved to be Joplin’s greatest critical and commercial success in his own lifetime, establishing him as “King of Ragtime Writers.” He moved to St. While in Sedalia, he published his first ragtime compositions and tutored and collaborated with other aspiring ragtime composers including Arthur Marshall, Scott Hayden, and Brun Campbell. His first published compositions-two songs-appeared the following year. He settled in Sedalia, Missouri in about 1894, finding work in the railroad town’s bustling red light district. From the mid-1880s to the mid-1890s, he worked as an itinerant musician, performing in minstrel troupes, as a cornetist in the Queen City Cornet Band, as a singer in the Texas Medley Quartette, and as a pianist. He demonstrated musical aptitude as a youth and studied piano with a local German-born music teacher. The son of an ex-slave and a freeborn woman, he was born in northeast Texas. Scott Joplin (b. 1867/8–d. 1917) was an American composer, notable for his many piano rags, waltzes, marches, and for his two operas.
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