Scott Joplin-Composer

Scott Joplin-Composer

Joplin, Scott (1867 or 1868-1 Apr. 1917), composer, was born between July 1867 and April 1868 in East Texas (Berlin, 1994), probably near Marshall, the son of Jiles Joplin, formerly a slave and then a labourer, and Florence Givens, a free-born African-American woman and a domestic. The frequently cited birthdate of 24 November 1868 for Joplin is incorrect. Joplin spent his childhood in Texarkana, on both the Texas and Arkansas sides, where he had a secondary school education. At age seven he began practicing piano in the home of a white family where his mother cleaned house. Julius Weiss, ...