LC control no. | no 92000108 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Chauvin, Louis, 1881-1908 |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 1881-03-13 |
Death date | 1908-03-26 |
Place of birth | Saint Louis (Mo.) |
Place of death | Chicago (Ill.) |
Field of activity | ragtime music |
Affiliation | Mozart Quartette |
Profession or occupation | Musicians Composers Arrangers (Musicians) Pianists pianist |
Found in | His Babe, it's too long off, c1906: cover (Louis Chauvin) New Grove dict. of Amer. mus. (Chauvin, Louis; b. 3-13-1881, St. Louis, MO; d. 3-26-08, Chicago; ragtime pianist and composer) African American National Biography, accessed January 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Chauvin, Louis; Lewis Chovan; Chauvan; Shovan; Showvan; ragtime musician, composer, arranger; born 13 March 1881 in St Louis, Missouri, United States. He was a member of the Mozart Quartette group (1899) and was featured in a musical play titled, Wait for the Dandy Coon, (1903). His fame today rests upon a single piano rag, Heliotrope Bouquet A Slow Drag Two Step, co-composed with Scott Joplin in Chicago and published (1907) by Joplin's long-time publisher John Stark. He died 26 March 1908 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) |