Scott joplin - maple leaf rag
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Scott Joplin
(1868-1917)
Who Was Scott Joplin?
Born in the late 1860s somewhere along the border between Texas and Arkansas, Scott Joplin took up the piano as a child and eventually became a travelling musician as a teen. He immersed himself in the emerging musical form known as ragtime and became the genre’s foremost composer with tunes like "The Entertainer," "Solace" and "The Maple Leaf Rag," which is the biggest-selling ragtime song in history. Joplin also penned the operas Guest of Honor and Treemonisha. He died in New York City on April 1, 1917.
Musical Family
Scott Joplin's exact date of birth and location is not known, though it is estimated that he was born between the summer of June 1867 and January 1868. Born to Florence Givens and Giles Joplin, Scott grew up in Texarkana, a town situated on the border between Texas and Arkansas. The Joplins were a musical family, with Florence being a singer and banjo player and Giles a violinist; Scott learned how to play the guitar at a young age and later took to the piano, displaying a gi
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Scott Joplin
American composer and pianist (1868–1917)
For the film, see Scott Joplin (film). For the painting, see Scott Joplin (painting).
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Joplin in 1912 | |
| Born | (1868-11-24)November 24, 1868 Texarkana, Texas or Linden, Texas, US (disputed) |
| Died | April 1, 1917(1917-04-01) (aged 48) New York City, US |
| Burial place | St. Michael's Cemetery |
| Education | George R. Smith College |
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| Years active | 1895–1917 |
| Works | List of compositions |
| Spouses | Belle Jones (m. 1899; div. 1903)Freddie Alexander (m. 1904; died 1904)Lottie Stokes (m. 1909) |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize (posthumous, 1976) |
Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime", he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces,[2] one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first
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Christine Joblin
French astrochemist
Christine Joblin is a French astrochemist who uses spectroscopy to study photodissociation and the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in cosmic dust.[1][2] Beyond her experimental and observational work, she also contributed to the first clear finding of buckminsterfullerene in a meteorite, a ureilite that exploded over the Nubian Desert in late 2008.[3] She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie in Toulouse.[4]
Education and career
Joblin earned a master's degree in astrophysics in 1989 through study at Paris Diderot University, Paris-Sud University, and the École normale supérieure (Paris). She completed a Ph.D. in astrophysics in 1992 at Paris Diderot University, and has a 2005 habilitation at Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University.[4]
After postdoctoral research at NASA's Ames Research Center in California from 1992 to 1995, she has been a CNRS research
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