Louis Chauvin

Louis Chauvin (March 13, 1881 – March 26, 1908, aged 27) was an American ragtime musician. Born in St. Louis, Missouri of a Mexican Spanish-Indian father and an African American mother, he was widely considered the finest pianist in the St. Louis area at the turn of the century. He was part of the ragtime community that met at Tom Turpin's Rosebud bar, along with Joe Jordan and others.