[DOC] [TLE] Maple Leaf Rag - Wikipedia [PAR] The "Maple Leaf Rag" (copyright registered on 18 September 1899) is an early 
ragtime musical ... His first published rag was "Original Rags" (March 1899). ... 
Brown's lyrics tell the story of a poor man from Accomack County, Virginia, who ... 
Leaf Rag", for example that 1 million copies of the sheet music were sold in the... [DOC] [TLE] Scott Joplin - Wikipedia [PAR] Scott Joplin was an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved 
fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime Writers". 
During his brief career, he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ... One of 
his first pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential 
hit... [DOC] [TLE] Scott Joplin - Pianist, Songwriter - Biography.com [PAR] Jun 29, 2015 ... Julius Weiss, a German music teacher who lived in Joplin's ... He published his 
first piano rag, "Original Rags," in the late 1890s, but was ... sheet-music copy 
sold of his next composition, "The Maple Leaf Rag. ... ragtime song ever, 
eventually selling more than a million copies. ... Joplin died on April 1, 1917. [DOC] [TLE] A tune that captured America - tribunedigital-baltimoresun [PAR] Mar 28, 1999 ... Perhaps 1 million copies ended up in American homes before phonographs and 
piano rolls killed the market for sheet music. More important, "Maple Leaf Rag" 
and the syncopated rhythms it ... "Maple Leaf" was not Joplin's first published 
song, or his first rag. Stories ... Some saw the fall of man in ragtime. [DOC] [TLE] Oscars 1974: The Music of Marvin Hamlisch  Scott Joplin and The ... [PAR] Feb 28, 2016 ... Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation: ... by David Maurer 
in his book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man. .... to massive fame 
and reputedly sold over a million copies of sheet music, an unheard of feat! ... 
After the publication of the Maple Leaf Rag, Joplin was soon being... [DOC] [TLE] Springfield-Greene County Library -- Bittersweet [PAR] This college was one of the first colleges for Blacks north of the Mason-Dixon line 
and ... If a black man wished to make his living as a musician, he was forced to 
perform ... Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" published by Stark in 1899 became a 
tremendous ... Though selling a half million copies of sheet music in ten years 
does not... [DOC] [TLE] Tim Gracyk's Phonographs, Singers, and Old Records -- Edward A ... [PAR] Its publisher, John Stark, advertised that a million copies had been sold, but 
Stark's ... Notice that #4911 is Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag"--one of the few 
records of ... Berlin has scrutinized Joplin sheet music and points out the 
significance of the .... Even if a copy of Joplin's first opera, the 1903 A Guest of 
Honor, were to... [DOC] [TLE] Mechanical Music Digest - Archives [PAR] Apr 6, 1998 ... Old Sheet Music ... I want to comment on the Maple Leaf Rag. There was man 
named John Stark who gave Joplin $50 for the Maple Leaf Rag and a ... If you 
have an original first edition (March 1904) of "The Chrysanthemum", printed ... 
Stark's ledger five years later shows a total of one million copies sold. [DOC] [TLE] Ragtime - The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America ... [PAR] By the early 1900s ragtime flooded the music publishing industry. ... The 
following year saw the first published piano rags beginning with W. H. Krell's "
Mississippi Rag. .... By 1914 "Maple Leaf Rag" had sold 1 million copies and 
Stark had amassed ... Ragtime was everywhere by the early 1900s - in sheet 
music, piano rolls,... [DOC] [TLE] St. Louis site details life of ragtime great - Chicago Tribune [PAR] Feb 8, 2004 ... Joplin's ragtime music, incredibly popular in the early 20th Century, ... To 
appreciate Joplin

Question: The first sheet music to sell 1 million copies was this man's "Maple Leaf Rag"
Answer: Scott Joplin