Cobb, George L. 08/31/1886 - 12/25/1942

George L. Cobb was an American composer, who was known for the album "Russian Rag". Cobb attended the "School of Harmony and Composition" at the University of Syracuse in 1905. He previously worked on many songs together with the American lyricist and screenwriter Jack Yellen. Their first hit was "All Aboard for Dixieland" (1913).

His well-known piece is however without a doubt "Russian Rag"(1918), for which the chord sequence from Rachmaninoff's prelude in C sharp minor, Opus 3, Number 2 was used in the introduction. This in turn became so successful that Cobb later indited an additional Ragtime composition based on a motif by Rachmaninoff, namely "The New Russian Rag" (1923). In 1917 Cobb had also been working as a writer for the music magazine "The Tuneful Yankee" (later known as "Melody").