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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.
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.
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 Klavierübung (Piano Tutorial, BV A 3), by the Italian pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni, is a compilation of piano exercises and practice pieces, comprising transcriptions of works by other composers and original compositions of his own.
The Wedding March may refer to: "Wedding March" (Mendelssohn), an 1842 composition by Felix Mendelssohn from his incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream The Wedding March, an 1873 play by W. S. Gilbert, later adapted as the comic opera Haste to the Wedding
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Pilgrims' Chorus: Paraphrase: organ 1860 S.676 This paraphrase is not based on the Pilgrims' Chorus from Act III, but on a simplified version of the opening section of the Overture, which uses the same melody, but differs from the Chorus in both structure and key. [56] piano c.1861 S.443 Opera Lohengrin (1850) Elsa's Bridal Procession: 1852 S.445/2
The suite is made up of very short sketches for piano. The Prelude in C major is the longest movement in the suite. Scored for three hands, the second player uses both hands to play Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude from Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, unaltered, while the first player joins in after two bars playing the main melody of "Just in Time", from ...