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CLASSICAL > pianist, composer > Scott%20Joplin
When I'm dead...
Vendor: CLASSICAL
When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.
Source: In King of Ragtime, by Edward A. Berlin, 1994.
-- Scott Joplin, (Nov 24 1868-1971), US pianist, composer; His Maple Leaf Rag, 1894, ushered in the era of ragtime; was awarded a special Bi-centennial Pulitzer Prize for his contribution to American music.