Russian Rag | |
Cover: | Russian Cobb.jpg |
Alt: | Cover art |
Caption: | Cover of sheet music, published by Will Rossiter, Chicago |
Type: | instrumental |
Artist: | Pietro Deiro |
Genre: | Ragtime |
Composer: | George L. Cobb |
"Russian Rag" is a 1918 ragtime jazz piano composition by George L. Cobb.[1] [2] The composition was published by Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd.
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]