May Aufderheide
American musician
Died when: 84 years 103 days (1011 months)Star Sign: Gemini
May Frances Aufderheide Kaufman (May 21, 1888 – September 1, 1972) was an American composer of ragtime music.She was probably the best known among female ragtime composers.
She received training in art music and visited Europe on a grand tour, yet decided to compose in ragtime.May Aufderheide was a member of the Indianapolis ragtime community that included Paul Pratt, Cecil Duane Crabb, J.
Russel Robinson, , Julia Lee Niebergall, and Gladys Yelvington.The popularity of her first published rag, "Dusty", convinced her father, Indianapolis loan broker John H.
Aufderheide, to enter the music publishing business forming the firm J.H.Aufderheide Music Publisher.
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