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Max Kortlander

Alongside ex-president Gerald Ford, composer Max Kortlander is among the most significant numbers to emerge from the hinterlands of Grand Rapids, MI. Kortlander was composing and posting ragtime by 1917 — he actually published a “Funeral Rag,” maybe for the sort of corpse that will not place still. Entertaining game …

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