Arthur Marshall (composer)

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Swipesy Cake Walk (sheet music edition 1900)

Arthur Owen Marshall (born November 20, 1881 in Saline County (Missouri) , † August 18, 1968 in Kansas City (Missouri) ) was an American composer and pianist of ragtime .

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Marshall, who first grew up in the country, moved with his family as a school child to Sedalia, Missouri, because of the much better education there for African Americans. When he was 15 years old, he (like his classmate Scott Hayden ) became a student of Scott Joplin , who was a boarder with his parents. They performed together in nightclubs such as the Black 400 Club and the Maple Leaf Club .

Marshall then studied music (theory) at George R. Smith College , where he graduated as a teacher. While still in college, he toured with McCabe's Minstrels for almost two years , playing rags on the piano during breaks. He also played at dance events, but also in brothels to collect college fees.

In 1901 Marshall moved to St. Louis, where he lived with Joplin and wrote two rags with him, Swipesy Cake Walk (1900) and The Lily Queen (1907). In the next few years he worked there and in Chicago, where he lived from 1905, as a pianist. He also wrote a few rags.

Personal circumstances (the death of his second wife and their third child in childbed) prompted him to retire from the music scene in 1917. It was not until 1949 that Marshall published some other compositions such as the National Prize Rag, Silver Arrow and the Missouri Romp . Occasionally he reappeared and was also given the opportunity to record his rags. He published two other pieces in 1966, Century Prize and Silver Rocket ; three more rags were posthumously relocated.

Publications

Lily Queen (1907 sheet music edition)
Ham and! (1908 sheet music edition)
title Year of publication Remarks
Swipesy Cakewalk 1900 with Scott Joplin
Kinklets 1906
Lily Queen 1907 with Joplin
Missouri Romp 1907
Ham and! 1908
The Peach 1908
The Glory of the Cubs 1908 with FR Sweirngen
The Pippin 1908
Silver Arrow Rag 1949
National Prize Rag 1950
Century Prize 1966
Silver Rocket 1966
I'll Wait Until My Dream Girl Comes Again 1974 posthumously
Little Jack's Rag 1976 posthumously
The Miracle of a Birth 1980 posthumously

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jannet Hubbard-Brown (2009). Scott Joplin: Composer , p. 30th
  2. ↑ Rose M. Nolen (2010). African Americans in Mid-Missouri: From Pioneers to Ragtimers , pp. 43-44
  3. ^ Edward A. Berlin: King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era . Oxford Univ. Press, 1994, ISBN 0-19-510108-1 , p. 168.
personal data
SURNAME Marshall, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marshall, Arthur Owen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and ragtime pianist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Saline County, Missouri
DATE OF DEATH 18th August 1968
Place of death Kansas City (Missouri)