MARSHALL, ARTHUR

MARSHALL, ARTHUR. Ragtime pianist/Composer (20 November 1881 in Saline County, Missouri; 18 August 1968 in Kansas City, Missouri). He studied music as a child in Sedalia, Missouri, where his family moved when he was an infant. When he was about fifteen, he became a protégé of Scott Joplin and studied music with the composer. He also attended the George R. Smith College in Sedalia and the Teacher's Institute, where he earned a teacher's license in education. He first...