Brun Campbell

Brun Campbell
Birth name	Sanford Brunson Campbell
Born	March 26, 1884 Oberlin, Kansas, US
Died	November 23, 1952 Venice, California, US
Genres	Folk ragtime
Occupation(s)	Composer, musician, pianist
Instruments	Piano
Years active	1899–1908, 1946–52

Brun Campbell (March 26, 1884 – November 23, 1952) was an American composer and pianist.

Born Sanford Brunson Campbell in Oberlin, Kansas, he ran away to Oklahoma City when he was fifteen and met Scott Joplin. For the next decade, he made his living as a traveling pianist in the Midwestern and Southern United States. In 1908, he married and settled down to become a barber.

Toward the end of his life, he wrote about ragtime and made recordings. He died in Venice, California. He is buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.

None of Campbell's compositions were copyrighted or published during his lifetime. However, they became known from recordings he made in the 1940s and early 1950s.

In 1993, Richard Egan, Jr. published Brun Campbell: The Music of "The Ragtime Kid", a collection of transcriptions of Campbell pieces.

In 2000, David Thomas Roberts recorded an album of Campbell's music, which was released on CD by Pianomania Music Publishing of Roseville, California.

Brun Campbell is the subject of three novels by Larry Karp: The Ragtime Kid, The King of Ragtime, and The Ragtime Fool.

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