Tom Turpin
The St. Louis Rag
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Tom Turpin
The St. Louis Rag
- Instrumentation Piano
- Composer Tom Turpin
- Edition Sheet Music (Urtext)
- Publisher Bartsch & Haeseler Musikverlag
- Order no. BHV8096
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Urtext, single piano edition.
"The St. Louis Rag" by the American ragtime composer Tom Turpin is a piece that was probably written in 1903. It was named after the city in which he lived. Tom Turpin was a physically imposing man from Savannah, Georgia. In his youth, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and opened a successful saloon with his older brother Charles, which served as a meeting place for local musicians and a place where the local ragtime scene flourished. He later held public office as a deputy constable and became one of the first African Americans in his town to hold political power. The environment in his saloon helped cultivate his own ragtime preferences and led to him becoming the first African American to publish a ragtime. His "Harlem Rag", published in 1897, was completed in 1892 and thus predates Joplin's own significant ragtime debut.
"The St. Louis Rag" by the American ragtime composer Tom Turpin is a piece that was probably written in 1903. It was named after the city in which he lived. Tom Turpin was a physically imposing man from Savannah, Georgia. In his youth, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and opened a successful saloon with his older brother Charles, which served as a meeting place for local musicians and a place where the local ragtime scene flourished. He later held public office as a deputy constable and became one of the first African Americans in his town to hold political power. The environment in his saloon helped cultivate his own ragtime preferences and led to him becoming the first African American to publish a ragtime. His "Harlem Rag", published in 1897, was completed in 1892 and thus predates Joplin's own significant ragtime debut.