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. 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 African-American composer and pianist.
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