The Chrysanthemum by Scott Joplin (1904)

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Original listing and sheet music here: https://musescore.com/user/36482158/scores/9197760?from=youtube_share
Joplin's adventure into the world of the ragtime intermezzo, a sort of flowery artistic rag. Published by John Stark in St. Louis in 1904, one of four published works that year of the St. Louis Exposition (World's Fair).

Original score source was from the Charles Templeton Sheet Music Collection at Mississippi State University at this link:
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/cht-sheet-music/2675/

This is a reproduction of the 1904 original score. Other than leaving off the pedal stop asterisks (had to insert invisible stops to prevent over-pedaling in playback), no changes were made.

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