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The intermezzo between acts 4 and 5 is the famous "Wedding March", probably the most popular single piece of music composed by Mendelssohn, and one of the most ubiquitous pieces of music ever written. Act 5 contains more music than any other, to accompany the wedding feast.
Wagner’s piece was made popular when it was used as the processional at the wedding of Victoria the Princess Royal to Prince Frederick William of Prussia in 1858. [1] The chorus is sung in Lohengrin by the women of the wedding party after the ceremony, as they accompany the heroine Elsa to her bridal chamber.
Felix Mendelssohn aged 12 (1821) by Carl Joseph Begas. Felix Mendelssohn was born on 3 February 1809, in Hamburg, at the time an independent city-state, [n 4] in the same house where, a year later, the dedicatee and first performer of his Violin Concerto, Ferdinand David, would be born. [4]
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room.
These types of compositions include: symphony, concerto, sonata, and standard chamber music combinations (strings trio, quartet, quintet, sextet, etc.; piano trio, quartet, quintet, sextet, etc.), among others. A sub-title is a subsidiary name given to a work by the composer, and considered part of its formal title, such as:
Chamber music. Violin Sonata in E major, Op. 2 (1895) Piano music. Menuett, WoO (1886) Wedding March (for his brother Carl's wedding, 1893) Four Preludes and Fugues ...
chamber: violin and piano also for piano, orchestra and numerous arrangements: à Carice (C. Alice Elgar) — Schott 13: 1889–90: Two pieces: chamber: violin and piano 1. Mot d'Amour (1889) 2. Bizarrerie (1890) — — — 13.1: 1889: Mot d'Amour: chamber: violin and piano first pub. as Liebesahnung, companion piece to Liebesgruss: Alice (C ...
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 .