String Quartet String Quartet - Digital Download SKU: A0.902422 Composed by Scott Joplin. Arranged by Sofia Zaitseva. Concert,Holiday,Ragtime,Wedding. Score and parts. 28 pages. Sofia Zaitseva #6208013. Published by Sofia Zaitseva (A0.902422). The Maple Leaf Rag is an early ragtime musical composition for piano composed by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's early works, and became the model for ragtime compositions by subsequent composers. It is one of the most famous of all ragtime pieces. As a result, Joplin became dubbed the King of Ragtime by his contemporaries. Despite ragtime's decline after Joplin's death in 1917, the Maple Leaf Rag continued to be recorded by many well-known artists. The ragtime revival of the 1970s brought it back to mainstream public notice once again.