Scott Joplin is featured at AfriClassical.com
County Line Magazine
By Tom Geddie
October 27, 2012
He was born as the second of six children of Florence Givins and Giles Joplin near Linden on, by most accounts, November 24, 1868, the first of several well known musicians from the town including bluesman Aaron “T-Bone” Walker, rocker Don Henley, and Richard Bowden, who’s been called – perhaps by himself – America’s most famous unknown entertainer.
When he was seven years old, the young Joplin moved with his family to
Texarkana. He was already playing banjo and was just beginning to learn
to play the piano that would make him famous.
Joplin’s mother cleaned homes and he practiced his music on pianos in
those homes. His mother, who also played banjo, and father, who helped
lay rail tracks and played fiddle, bought him a piano in 1882 and he
received free lessons that gave him a well-rounded knowledge of
classical music form.
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