"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]

"Russian Rag"
Cover of sheet music, published by Will Rossiter, Chicago
Instrumental by Pietro Deiro
Released	1918 (1918)
Genre	Ragtime
Composer(s)	George L. Cobb

Russian Rag

Accordion performance, played by Pietro Deiro

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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]

References

External links

• Russian Rag (Cobb, George L.) from IMSLP

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