Weiss, as described by San Diego Jewish World writer Eric George Tauber, "was no stranger to race hatred.As a Jew in Germany, he was often slapped and called a 'Christ-killer. While a few local teachers aided him, he received most of his musical education from Julius Weiss, a German-born American Jewish music professor who had immigrated to Texas in the late 1860s and was employed as music tutor by a prominent local business family.
According to a family friend, the young Joplin was serious and ambitious studying music and playing the piano after school. Īt the age of 16, Joplin performed in a vocal quartet with three other boys in and around Texarkana, also playing piano. Biographer Susan Curtis speculates that Florence's support of her son's musical education was a critical factor behind her separation from Giles, who wanted the boy to pursue practical employment that would supplement the family income. Īt some point in the early 1880s, Giles Joplin left the family for another woman and Florence struggled to support her children through domestic work. As Joplin's father had played the violin for plantation parties in North Carolina and his mother sang and played the banjo, Joplin was given a rudimentary musical education by his family, and from the age of seven he was allowed to play the piano while his mother cleaned. īy 1880, the Joplins moved to Texarkana, Arkansas, where Giles worked as a railroad laborer and Florence as a cleaner. There is disagreement over his exact place of birth in Texas, with Blesh identifying Texarkana, and Berlin showing the earliest record of Joplin being the June 1870 census which locates him in Linden, as a two-year-old. Berlin showed this was "almost certainly incorrect". His birth date was accepted by early biographers Rudi Blesh and James Haskins as November 24, 1868, although later biographer Edward A. Joplin was the second of six children born to Giles Joplin, a former slave from North Carolina, and Florence Givens, a freeborn African-American woman from Kentucky. In 1976, Joplin was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Treemonisha was finally produced in full, to wide acclaim, in 1972.
This was followed by the Academy Award–winning 1973 film The Sting, which featured several of Joplin's compositions, most notably " The Entertainer", a piece performed by pianist Marvin Hamlisch that received wide airplay. Joplin's music was rediscovered and returned to popularity in the early 1970s with the release of a million-selling album recorded by Joshua Rifkin. Joplin's death is widely considered to mark the end of ragtime as a mainstream music format over the next several years, it evolved with other styles into stride, jazz, and, eventually, swing. In mid-January 1917, he was admitted to a mental asylum and died there less than three months later at the age of 48. In 1916, Joplin descended into dementia as a result of neurosyphilis. His second opera, Treemonisha, was never fully staged during his life. He attempted to go beyond the limitations of the musical form that had made him famous but without much monetary success. In 1907, Joplin moved to New York City to find a producer for a new opera. In 1903, the score to his first opera, A Guest of Honor, was confiscated-along with his belongings-for non-payment of bills (likely as a result of being robbed). Louis, where he continued to compose and publish and regularly performed in the community. It also brought Joplin a steady income for life. This piece had a profound influence on writers of ragtime. He began publishing music in 1895, and publication of his "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1899 brought him fame. There he taught future ragtime composers Arthur Marshall, Scott Hayden, and Brun Campbell. Joplin moved to Sedalia, Missouri, in 1894 and earned a living as a piano teacher. He went to Chicago for the World's Fair of 1893, which helped make ragtime a national craze by 1897. During the late 1880s, he left his job as a railroad laborer and traveled the American South as an itinerant musician. While in Texarkana, he formed a vocal quartet and taught mandolin and guitar. Joplin grew up in a musical family of railway laborers in Texarkana, Arkansas, developing his own musical knowledge with the help of local teachers. Joplin considered ragtime to be a form of classical music meant to be played in concert halls and largely disdained the performance of ragtime as honky tonk music most common in saloons. One of his first and most popular pieces, the " Maple Leaf Rag", became the genre's first and most influential hit, later being recognized as the quintessential rag. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime", he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist.
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