The sheet music for "Dizzy Fingers".

Edward Elzear "Zez" Confrey (April 3, 1895-November 22, 1971) was an American composer and performer of piano music. Image File history File links Dizzy_Fingers_Sheet_Music_Cover_1. ... Image File history File links Dizzy_Fingers_Sheet_Music_Cover_1. ... April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... A grand piano, with the lid up. ...

Zez Confrey was born in Peru, Illinois, the youngest child of Thomas and Margaret Confrey. After World War I he became a pianist and arranger for the QRS piano roll company. His novelty piano composition "Kitten on the Keys," released in 1921, became a hit, and he went on compose many other pieces in the same genre. This piece was inspired by a cat at his grandmother's house that he discovered prancing up and down the piano keyboard. Aerial view of Peru, Illinois Peru is a city located in La Salle County, Illinois. ... Combatants Allied Powers: France Italy Russia Serbia United Kingdom United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul von Hindenburg Reinhard... A piano roll is the medium used to operate the player piano or pianola, band/fairground organs, calliopes and hand-cranked organs and orchestrions and pipe organs as well. ... Novelty Piano is a genre of American music that was popular during the 1920s. ...

After the 1920s he turned more and more toward composing for jazz bands. He retired after World War II but continued to compose occasionally until 1959. He died in Lakewood, New Jersey after suffering for many years from Parkinson's disease. He left behind more than a hundred piano works, miniature operas, and songs, plus numerous piano rolls, music publications, and recordings. The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in African American musical styles blended with Western music technique and theory. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lakewood is a census-designated place located in Ocean County, New Jersey. ...

Selected works

• My Pet (1921)
• Kitten on the Keys (1921)
• You Tell 'em Ivories (1921)
• Poor Buttermilk (1921)
• Greenwich Witch (1921)
• Stumbling (1922)
• Coaxing the Piano (1922)
• Nickel in the Slot (1923)
• Dizzy Fingers (1923)
• Three Little Oddities (1923)
• African Suite (1924)
• Humorestless (1925)
• Jay Walk (1927)
• Jack in the Box (1927)
• Sparkling Waters (1928)
• Moods of a New Yorker (1932)
• Smart Alec (1933)
• Giddy Ditty (1935)
• Rhythm Venture (1935)
• Blue Tornado (1935)
• Meandering (1936)
• Wise Cracker Suite (1936)
• Amazonia (1945)
• Fourth Dimension (1959)