compositions by Johann C. Schmid

sheet music scanned by University of Maine, UNC Chapel Hill libraries, reformatted by Lewis J. Thomas Jr.

MIDI

Footlights, usually recessed into the floor of a performance stage, are used to soften shadows caused by other lighting.
Footlight Flashes was the name of an 1866 book of reminiscences by stage actor William Pleater Davidge (1814-1888).
George Gordon Meade (1815-1872) was a United States Army general during the American Civil War (1861-1865).