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Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" in C major, written in 1842, is one of the best known of the pieces from his suite of incidental music (Op. 61) to Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is one of the most frequently used wedding marches , generally being played on a church pipe organ .
The exiting of the bridal party is also called the wedding recessional. At the end of the service, in Western traditions, the bride and groom march back up the aisle to a lively recessional tune, a popular one being Felix Mendelssohn's Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1842). [6]
The "Bridal Chorus" (German: "Treulich geführt") from the 1850 opera Lohengrin by German composer Richard Wagner, who also wrote the libretto, is a march played for the bride's entrance at many formal weddings throughout the Western world.
In 1844 Mendelssohn arranged three movements for piano solo (Scherzo, Nocturne, Wedding March), which received their first recording by Roberto Prosseda in 2005. Slightly better known is the composer's own arrangement, also made in 1844, of five movements for piano duet (Overture, Scherzo, Intermezzo, Nocturne, Wedding March).
The Bridal Chorus, from Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin, used as wedding processional music; The "Wedding March", from Felix Mendelssohn's incidental works (Op. 61), used as wedding recessional music; Wedding Song, orchestral work by Elisabetta Brusa; Hochzeits-Lied (Wedding Song), by Kurt Weil from The Threepenny Opera
One such example is the arrangement of 22 of the songs by Mendelssohn's student, the German violist Friedrich Hermann (1828–1907), for violin and piano. [12] In 1834, Franz Liszt wrote his Grosses Konzertstück über Mendelssohns Lieder ohne Worte (Grand Concert Piece on Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words) for 2 pianos.
– Beethoven’s Funeral March No 1. The stately, mournful piece was played at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral in April 2021, as well as the procession to the lying in state of the Queen Mother ...
No. 7 "Sehnsucht: Fern und ferner schallt der Reigen" (composed by Fanny Mendelssohn) [2] No. 8 "Frühlingsglaube: Die linden Lüfte sind erwacht" (MWV K 51) No. 9 "Ferne: In weite Ferne will ich träumen" (MWV K 53) No. 10 "Verlust: Und wussten's die Blumen" (composed by Fanny Mendelssohn) [2]