Anyone who hears the name of Scott Joplin immediately thinks of the ragtime which is inseparably connected with this composer, particularly since the film "The Sting" has triggered a real renaissance of this musical style. The fact that the American rag master also wrote compositions for other genres – he actually left a veritable opera – is hardly known. The present volume unites the original piano marches written by Joplin: They are true marches, yet occasionally also ragtimes 'in disguise' be...

• The Crush Collision March (1896)
• Combination March (1896)
• Cleopha (1902)
• March Majestic (1902)
• The Rose-bud March (1905)
• A Breeze from Alabama (1902)
• Antoinette (1906)
• Something Doing (1903)
• Search-Light Rag (1907)