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George L. Cobb
Piano-Notenblätter von George L. Cobb auf Zen Virtual Piano entdecken. George L. Cobb’s most famous work, “Russian Rag,” is based on the opening chord progression of Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2. The piece was such a hit in 1918 that in 1923 he wrote “The New Russian Rag” in an attempt to arrange more of the prelude for ragtime piano. Going back to the same prelude five years later hints that the idea of setting a Rachmaninoff prelude to a ragtime beat still had more to offer. George Linus Cobb was born on August 31, 1886, and died of coronary thrombosis on December 25, 1942. He attended the School of Harmony and Composition at Syracuse University in 1905, and his compositions began soon afterward. He composed over 200 pieces, including ragtime, marches and waltzes, and wrote columns for music trade publications. Marches, waltzes and rags within one output suggest a composer ready to write whichever form was wanted. Cobb collaborated with the lyricist Jack Yellen on many early songs; the two had been writing songs as early as 1909, beginning with “Moonlight Makes Me Lonesome for a Girl Like You.” They sold their first big hit, “All Aboard for Dixieland,” for $100 in 1913, and in 1950 Billboard described Cobb as a “roving music teacher” during Yellen’s sophomore year in college. A first big hit sold for $100 suggests how modest a songwriter’s reward could be at the time. By 1917 Cobb was writing a monthly column, “Just Between You and Me,” in The Tuneful Yankee, a ragtime magazine owned by the publisher Walter Jacobs, which also published many of his compositions. He continued writing for it after it was renamed Melody in 1918. A column titled “Just Between You and Me” suggests a conversational tone with the magazine’s readers.
About George L. Cobb
Piano-Notenblätter von George L. Cobb auf Zen Virtual Piano entdecken.
George L. Cobb’s most famous work, “Russian Rag,” is based on the opening chord progression of Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2. The piece was such a hit in 1918 that in 1923 he wrote “The New Russian Rag” in an attempt to arrange more of the prelude for ragtime piano. Going back to the same prelude five years later hints that the idea of setting a Rachmaninoff prelude to a ragtime beat still had more to offer.
George Linus Cobb was born on August 31, 1886, and died of coronary thrombosis on December 25, 1942. He attended the School of Harmony and Composition at Syracuse University in 1905, and his compositions began soon afterward. He composed over 200 pieces, including ragtime, marches and waltzes, and wrote columns for music trade publications. Marches, waltzes and rags within one output suggest a composer ready to write whichever form was wanted.
Cobb collaborated with the lyricist Jack Yellen on many early songs; the two had been writing songs as early as 1909, beginning with “Moonlight Makes Me Lonesome for a Girl Like You.” They sold their first big hit, “All Aboard for Dixieland,” for $100 in 1913, and in 1950 Billboard described Cobb as a “roving music teacher” during Yellen’s sophomore year in college. A first big hit sold for $100 suggests how modest a songwriter’s reward could be at the time.
By 1917 Cobb was writing a monthly column, “Just Between You and Me,” in The Tuneful Yankee, a ragtime magazine owned by the publisher Walter Jacobs, which also published many of his compositions. He continued writing for it after it was renamed Melody in 1918. A column titled “Just Between You and Me” suggests a conversational tone with the magazine’s readers.
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