compositions by Johann C. Schmid

"The War Correspondent" or "Topic of the Day" march by "Marie Louka"

"Marie Louka" is a pseudonym referring to Marie Louise Kaekel, whom Schmid married in 1902.

The manuscript is undated. Johann C. Schmid's grandson Lewis J. Thomas Jr., who scanned the manuscript,
thought it was written in 1941. The upbeat tone of its music suggests that it was written prior to the 1941-12-07
Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The unnamed war correspondent who inspired this
composition would have been reporting either from Britain or Europe prior to America's declarations of war
on Japan (1941-12-08) and on Germany (1941-12-11).

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manuscript scanned by Lewis J. Thomas Jr.