Scott Hayden

Ragtime composer Scott Hayden was created to Marion and Julia Hayden in March 30, 1882, in 133 Western world Cooper Road in Sedalia, MO. A schoolmate of Arthur Marshall, he fulfilled Scott Joplin while still enrolled at Lincoln SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, that he graduated in 1900. Both teenagers had been schooled in the arts of ragtime by their coach, Scott Joplin. Shortly Hayden, who’s said to possess possessed a nice singing tone of voice, was performing prior to the open public in Sedalia and throughout Pettis State. In 1901 John Stark released the to begin four collaborative Joplin/Hayden rags, the wonderful “Sunflower Slow Move.” This is constructed in Sedalia; Joplin composed the introduction and it is believed to are already the foundation of at least among the designs, particularly the trio. For this period Joplin wedded Hayden’s widowed sister-in-law Belle. Hayden wedded a young female with the name of Nora Wright and relocated to St. Louis, where Nora tragically succumbed to problems during childbirth. In 1903 Hayden offered as pianist for the Scott Joplin Play Firm during rehearsals and the brief display of Joplin’s ill-fated and today non-existent opera A Visitor of Honor. Also in 1903, Joplin and Hayden’s exuberant rag “Something Carrying out” was released by Val. A. Reis of St. Louis. Hayden, who acquired seen Chicago in 1902, transferred there permanently the next calendar year. Joplin and Hayden co-composed two even more rags which were released by Stark: “Felicity Rag” (1911) and “Kismet Rag” (1913). Hayden, who also devised a stunning melody entitled “Pear Blossoms,” may have supplied musical entertainment being a soloist and occasionally as an associate of the ensemble in a variety of roadhouses western world of Chicago toward the finish of his short life. He wedded one Jeanette Wilkins and was portion as an elevator operator in the Make County Medical center when he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and passed on at age 33 on Sept 24, 1915.