Scott Hayden (March 31, 1882 — September 16, 1915) was an American composer of

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music.

Life

Born in

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, he was the son of Marion and Julia Hayden. Hayden is remembered today for the four rags he composed in collaboration with Scott Joplin, " Sunflower Slow Drag," "Something Doing," "Felicity Rag," "Kismet Rag" and also for another composition he wrote himself, "Pear Blossoms". There was a family connection of sorts between the two men, since Joplin's first wife, Belle Hayden, had been Scott Hayden's sister-in-law. Hayden married Nora Wright and lived with the Joplins in

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. Nora died giving birth to a daughter in 1901. Hayden moved to

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, got a job as an

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in the

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, and married Jeanette Wilkins. A slender, handsome man of delicate health, he died in Chicago of

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, leaving "Pear Blossoms" unfinished.

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