May Frances Aufderheide 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 Crabbe, J. Russel Robinson, Will B. Morrison, Julia Lee Niebergall, and Gladys Yelvington.

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  • May Frances Aufderheide 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 Crabbe, J. Russel Robinson, Will B. Morrison, Julia Lee Niebergall, and Gladys Yelvington. The popularity of her first published rag, "Dusty", convinced her father, Indianapolis loan broker J. H. Aufderheide, to enter the music publishing business.
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  • May Frances Aufderheide 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 Crabbe, J. Russel Robinson, Will B. Morrison, Julia Lee Niebergall, and Gladys Yelvington.
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  • May Aufderheide
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