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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 .
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).
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy [n 1] (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, [n 2] was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music.
Twelve Lieder for voice and piano, Op. 9 (1827–30) (3 of the lieder were composed by Fanny Mendelssohn, but published under Felix's name) [2] Seemanns Scheidelied, lied for voice and piano (1831) (WoO 20) (MWV K 48) Six Songs for voice and piano, Op. 19a (1830–32) Two Romances for voice and piano (1833–34) (WoO 4)
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.
Fantasia on "The Last Rose of Summer" in E major for piano, Op. 15 (1827) Fantasies or Caprices for piano, Op. 16 (1829) No. 1 Fantasia in A minor; No. 2 Caprice or Scherzo in E minor; No. 3 Fantasia in E major ("The Rivulet") Fantasia in F-sharp minor for piano, Op. 28 ("Sonate écossaise") 3 Caprices, Op. 33 (1834–1835) No 1. in A minor (1834)
Fanny Mendelssohn's early collections of piano works opp. 2,6, and 8 are titled Lieder für das Pianoforte (Songs for the piano). Other composers who were inspired to produce similar sets of pieces of their own included Charles-Valentin Alkan (the five sets of Chants , each ending with a barcarolle ), Anton Rubinstein , Ignaz Moscheles and ...
Unusually for Mendelssohn, who often produced his compositions quickly, the Second Piano Concerto took him a great deal of effort. [2] Its genesis dates to the period shortly after his marriage and is first mentioned in a letter to his friend Karl Klingemann [] while on honeymoon: "aber ein Konzert machte ich mir so gern für England, und kann immer noch nicht dazu kommen.