May Aufderheide

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Dusty Rag , the first published Rag Aufderheide.

May Frances Aufderheide Kaufman (born May 21, 1888 in Indianapolis , † September 1, 1972 in Pasadena (California) ) was an American ragtime composer . Today she is considered the best female composer in this genre.

Life

Aufderheide grew up in a musical family; her violin-playing father worked as a banker ; his sister Mary Kolmer, who performed as a pianist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra , gave her classical piano lessons as a girl . She composed the first rags by 1908 at the latest. With family money and support from friends who organized the print, she published her Dusty Rag that same year , which, like the Flyer Rag , was initially only sold locally. Shortly thereafter, her father worked as a music journalist and published other works by his daughter (but also by other composers from their circle, such as Gladys Yelvington and Julia Lee Niebergall ), which was referred to nationwide in 1909 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 he initially supported his father. From 1911 he worked as a brooker in her father's company; shortly afterwards May Aufderheide completed her last compositions. In later years she used a wheelchair because of arthritis . In 1942, Bunk Johnson started the Dixieland revival with her Dusty Rag . In recent years her titles have been performed again and again, in Germany for example in conversation concerts by Marcus Schwarz with Sabine Wackernagel under the motto "Red Peppers - Die Ragtime women", but also orchestrated by Tobias Faßhauer.

Works

Title page of the sheet music for The Thriller
1908
  • Dusty Rag
  • The Richmond Rag
1909
  • The thriller!
  • Buzzer Rag
  • I'll Pledge My Heart to You
1910
  • Blue Ribbon Rag
  • A Totally Different Rag
  • A Totally Different Rag Song
  • In Bamboo Land
  • My Girl of the Golden Days
1911
  • Novelty Rag
  • Pompeian Waltzes
  • I want a patriotic girl
  • Drifting in Dreams With You
  • You and Me in the Summertime
  • I want a real lovin 'man
  • Pelham Waltzes
1912
  • Dusty Rag Song

literature

  • James R. Briscoe: New Historical Anthology of Music by Women. Vol. 1

Web links

Commons : May Aufderheide  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b May Aufderheide, 1888–1972 (biography). Library of Congress , accessed August 9, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Bunk Johnson Sessionography 1942 ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weijts.scarlet.nl
  3. ↑ Concert program 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.archiv-frau-musik.de  
  4. ↑ a b c Text by Earle C. Jones
  5. ^ Text by Bobby Jones
  6. ↑ a b text by Rudolph Aufderheide
  7. ^ Text by Paul Pratt
  8. ^ Text by J. Will Callahan
personal data
SURNAME Aufderheide, May
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaufman, May Frances Aufderheide (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ragtime composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Indianapolis
DATE OF DEATH 1st September 1972
Place of death Pasadena, California