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The "Maple Leaf Rag" (copyright registered September 18, 1899)[1] is an early ragtime musical composition for piano composed by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's early works, and is one of the most famous of all ragtime pieces, and became the model for ragtime compositions by subsequent composers.[2] The piece gave Joplin a steady if unspectacular income for the rest of his life, and as a result he was called the "King of Ragtime".
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Despite ragtime's decline after the death of Joplin in 1917 and the end of World War One, the Maple Leaf Rag continued to be recorded by well-known artists. The Ragtime revival of the 1970s brought it back to mainstream public notice.
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