Confrey, Zez
(1895–1971)> COMPOSER
Zez Confrey Composer Edward Elzear Confrey, Peru, Illinois, April 3, 1895; Lakewood, New Jersey, November 22, 1971. Confrey composed more than ninety piano pieces, influencing the playing of his contemporaries and creating the vogue for novelty rags in the 1920s. He studied at Florenz Ziegfeld Sr.’s, Chicago Musical College, where he was exposed to the French impressionist composers, who had a profound influence on his own composition. In 1915, he obtained a job demonstrating music for the…