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James Scott

1885 - 1938

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James Sylvester Scott (February 12, 1885 – August 30, 1938) was an American ragtime composer and pianist. He is regarded as one of the "Big Three" composers of classical ragtime along with Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Scott is the 616th most popular composer (up from 1,307th in 2019), the 3,317th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,250th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, James Scott ranks 616 out of 1,451. Before him are František Brixi, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Eduardo di Capua, Antoine François Marmontel, Louis Couperin, and Sergei Bortkiewicz. After him are Riccardo Drigo, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Gershon Kingsley, Carl Zeller, Luis de Milán, and Bálint Bakfark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, James Scott ranks 90. Before him are Lev Rudnev, Frank Jack Fletcher, Agustín Barrios, Constantin Sănătescu, Viktor Schauberger, and Pierre Renoir. After him are Karl Genzken, Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Milan Vidmar, Noman Çelebicihan, Alexandros Koryzis, and Iuliu Hossu. Among people deceased in 1938, James Scott ranks 87. Before him are George Ellery Hale, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, Branislaw Tarashkyevich, and William Wallace Campbell. After him are Sholem Schwarzbard, Octavian Goga, Kazimierz Twardowski, Bernd Rosemeyer, John Bates Clark, and Otto von Lossow.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Scott ranks 3,317 out of 20,380. Before him are Esther Lederberg (1922), Kathryn Adams (1893), Carmen Argenziano (1943), William Stanley Jr. (1858), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919), and Steven Weber (1961). After him are Patricia Arquette (1968), Jensen Ackles (1978), Winston Groom (1943), Brian Weiss (1944), Alfred Bester (1913), and Horace Wells (1815).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, James Scott ranks 34. Before him are Terry Riley (1935), Michael Kamen (1948), John Adams (1947), Amy Beach (1867), Morton Feldman (1926), and Ernest Guiraud (1837). After him are Stephen Foster (1826), Alex North (1910), Basil Poledouris (1945), Jerome Kern (1885), Carmine Coppola (1910), and Lee Konitz (1927).

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