May Aufderheide

May Frances Aufderheide Kaufman ( born May 21, 1888 in Indianapolis, † September 1, 1972 in Pasadena ( California)) was an American Ragtimekomponistin. It is considered today as the best composer of this genre.

Life and work

Aufderheide grew up in a musical family; her fiddle -playing father worked as a banker; his sister Mary Kolmer which performed as a pianist with the Symphony Orchestra of Indianapolis, gave her classical piano lessons as a girl. No later than 1908, she composed the first Rags. With money from the family and support from friends, who organized the pressure, it was the same year her Dusty Rag out of the first, as well as the flyer Rag were driven only locally. Shortly after, her father was working as a music journalist and published other works of his daughter (but also of other composers from around machinery as Gladys Yelvington and Julia Lee Niebergall ), reference was made to the 1909 nationwide in the American Musician and Art Journal. Aufderheide married Thomas M. Kaufman, the son of the architect William S. Kaufman, with whom she moved to Richmond ( Indiana), where it initially supported his father. From 1911 he worked as Brooker in her father's company; shortly afterwards presented May Aufderheide their last compositions ready. In later years she was confined to a wheelchair due to arthritis. 1942 Bunk Johnson launched the Dixieland Revival with her Dusty Rag. In recent years, its shares have been listed repeatedly, in Germany, for example, in lecture concerts by Marcus Black with Sabine Wackernagel under the slogan " Red Peppers - The Ragtime Women " orchestrated, but also by Tobias Faßhauer.

Works

  • Dusty Rag
  • The Richmond Rag
  • The Thriller!
  • Buzzer Rag
  • I'll Pledge My Heart to You
  • Blue Ribbon Rag
  • A Totally Different Rag
  • A Totally Different Rag Song
  • In Bamboo Country
  • My Girl of the Golden Days
  • Novelty Rag
  • Pompeian Waltzes
  • I Want a Girl Patriotic
  • Drifting in Dreams With You
  • You and Me in the Summertime
  • I Want a Real Lovin 'Man
  • Pelham Waltzes
  • Dusty Rag Song
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