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Jan 01, 0001 Died on 30 Sep 1933 (aged 1932)
American musician
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About William Krell
- William Henry Krell (1868–1933) composed what is regarded as the first rag or ragtime composition in 1897 called Mississippi Rag, published in New York by S.
- Brainard's Sons and copyrighted on January 27, 1897.
- The sheet music stated that it was the first rag-time two step ever written and was first played by Krell's Orchestra in Chicago although the structure is in the form of a patrol march.
- The cover shows a group of all ages dancing to a banjo player before onlookers sitting on a pile of stacked cotton bales on a dock on the Mississippi River.
- Krell also composed the rag Shake Yo' Dusters! or Piccaninny Rag in 1898.
- The popularity of "Mississippi Rag" resulted in the emergence of the genre known as ragtime.
