Today we tell about the life and work of one of America's greatest music writers: Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime.

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Here is a perfect example. Scott Joplin and John Stark published "A Breeze From Alabama" in nineteen-oh-two.

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Official population documents suggest Scott Joplin was born in eighteen sixty-seven or eighteen sixty-eight.

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We leave you now with one of Scott Joplin's prettiest rags, "Heliotrope Bouquet."

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The Scott Joplin Organization in Sedalia,Missouri says Joplin wrote this rag, "The Chrysanthemum,"

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He also became famous. But,even today, much about Scott Joplin remains a mystery.

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The agreement was very good for both Scott Joplin and John Stark.

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By about nineteen fifteen, Scott Joplin began suffering badly from syphilis.

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Scott Joplin wrote it more than one hundred years ago.

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Scott Joplin left the world sixty musical works.

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Florence and Giles Joplin separated before Scott became a teenager.

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