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Scott Joplin was born in Texarkana, Texas around , and was one of six kids.

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Both of Scott Joplin's parents were musicians.

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His father played the violin at parties in North Carolina and his mother sang and played the banjo. His parents gave Scott a basic musical education, and at seven years old he began teaching himself to play the piano while his mother cleaned houses.

As a boy Joplin loved to play the piano and practiced every day after school.

Several local teachers helped him, but most of his musical education was guided by Julius Weiss, a German music professor who had immigrated to Texas in the late ’s.

It wasn't too long before Joplin was performing as a pianist and singing in a quartet with three boys that lived in hi