Russian Rag (composition)

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"Russian Rag"
Cover art
Cover of sheet music, published by Will Rossiter, Chicago
Instrumental by Pietro Deiro
Released1918 (1918)
GenreRagtime
ComposerGeorge L. Cobb
File:Victor 18743b-Russian Rag.jpg
Victor 18743 Side B record label: Russian Rag, played by Pietro Deiro

"Russian Rag" is a 1918 ragtime jazz piano composition by George L. Cobb.[1][2] The composition was published by Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd.[1]

The composition is based on the opening chord progression of Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op.3, No.2. The piece was such a hit that Cobb wrote The New Russian Rag in 1923 in an attempt to arrange more of the Rachmaninoff prelude for ragtime piano.[3][4]

Elena Kats-Chernin wrote another later piano composition entitled Russian Rag in 1996.[5][6]

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