My greatgrandfather established The McDonnell
Piano Co. in Kansas City. To help customers
learn to play the instrument, the company made
available the book "A Practical Method for the
Pianoforte" (1906) by O. D. Weaver. Many of its
playing selections are classical pieces, but not
all of them indicate their composers. There is a
charming little piece in it titled "The Fire Fly".
Does anyone know who composed it?

To listen to it, go to my homepage, scroll to near
the bottom of the page, and click on "The Fire Fly".

I ran an internet search on "The Fire Fly" and
"piano piece" and was directed to a site that has the
Burghauser catalogue list of compositions by Dvorak.
B 435, dated 1896, is "The Fire-fly". But there is no
indication of the genre of Dvorak's "The Fire-fly".
And the portion of the list it is in is headed
"Unrealized sketches", which suggests that it was
not published.

Possibly Amy Beach? I think she wrote a set of pieces called Fireflies, but I'd have to double-check to be sure...

I just listened to the link off your page - it isn't Amy Beach... Don't know who it is... Good luck

I played a "Firefly" named work. Can't remember the name but is in C major... and starts with some kinds of fifths in a bass register, could it be?? i hated it tough hehe...