"Martha" should have survived the war years, but after WW2, it was Wagner, Mozart and Beethoven alone for German opera. A pity.
The first became a hit when John Philip Sousa picked it up for his band.
This is one of his classics.
This piece was speeded up and beaten to death in the Seventies, thanks to its inclusion in The Sting, where it was chronologically out of place. This takes it at the pace Joplin suggested.